Numerical competence is the ability to represent, discriminate, and process numerical quantity information. Animals benefit ...

So, numerical competence did not emerge de novo in linguistic humans, but built up on biological precursor systems. Behavioural studies have shown that non-linguistic animals have the capacity to ...

"Interestingly, we know now that numerical competence is present on almost every branch on the animal tree of life," says Nieder, who works with different animal species to explore how trained ...

Pigeons may not be so bird-brained after all, as scientists have found the birds' ability to understand numbers is on par with that of primates. Previous studies have shown that various animals ...

“In our lab, it has been shown that crows have sophisticated numerical competence, demonstrate abstract thinking, and show careful consideration during decision-making,” she said. In her most ...

After perusing nearly 150 scientific articles on the subject, he concluded that “numerical competence is present on almost every branch on the animal tree of life.” A wolf pack investigates ...

"I hope that with more research on this direction, we can come in a few years to a method to enhance numerical competence in a safe fashion." The scientists detailed their findings online Nov. 4 ...

In their present study, they asked whether dogs also possess this skill or if this form of numerical competence was lost through domestication. For the study, Range and her colleagues from the ...

What does this tell us about how math skills evolved? One interesting question is, did numerical competence develop just in primates? Is it general to mammals or is it shared by groups outside of ...

The researchers then used standard testing methods for numerical competence to test the participants’ ability to automatically process the relationship of those artificial numbers to one another ...

The ability to produce a volitional number of vocalizations demands a highly-developed combination of numerical competence and vocal control. "Our results show that humans are not the only ones ...

Your math teacher would be happy to hear that. Indeed, what we call "numerical competence" is important in life, including in the animal kingdom. What does numerical competence mean? We define it ...