Terrence C. Stewart, Marcie Penner, Rylan J. Waring, and Michael L. Anderson. A common neural component for finger gnosis and magnitude comparison. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK, 2017. Cognitive Science Society. URL: https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2017/papers/0222/index.html.
@inproceedings{stewart2017,
title = {A Common Neural Component for Finger Gnosis and Magnitude Comparison},
author = {Terrence C. Stewart and Marcie Penner and Rylan J. Waring and Michael L. Anderson},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society},
publisher = {Cognitive Science Society},
address = {London, UK},
url = {https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2017/papers/0222/index.html},
pdf = {https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2017/papers/0222/paper0222.pdf},
abstract={Finger gnosis (the ability to identify which finger has been touched) and magnitude comparison (the ability to determine which of two numbers is larger) are surprisingly correlated. We present a spiking neuron model of a common component that could be used in both tasks: an array of pointers. We show that if the model's single tuned parameter is set to match human accuracy performance in one task, then it also matches on the other task (with the exception of one data point). This provides a novel explanation of the relation, and proposes a common component that could be used across cognitive tasks.},
year = {2017},
}