Saturday, October 23, 2021

Numerosity Around the Animal Kingdom

Amazing stuff! Nice overview article! It looks like more research is necessary!

"While some experiments try to test animals' perception of quantities in natural settings, others use training paradigms that offer experimenters more control over the conditions. All face the obstacle of distinguishing whether animals are reacting to numerosity or other perceptual features such as size, density, or mass, and it’s still an open question how widespread numerosity perception is. ..."

Numerosity Around the Animal Kingdom | The Scientist Magazine® Research in recent decades has explored how animals other than humans perceive different numbers of objects

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