Bridging the Gap between Cognition and Developmental Neuroscience: The Example of Number Representation

Developmental cognitive neuroscience necessar- ily begins with a characterization of the developing mind. One cannot discover the neural underpinnings of cognition with- out detailed understanding of the representational Capacities that underlie thought. Characterizing the developing mind nvolves specifying the evolutionarily given building blocks from which human conceptual abilities are constructed. de- scribing what develops, and discovering the computational mechanisms that underlie the process of change. Here, 1 pres- ent the current state of the art with respect to one example of conceptual understanding: the representation of number