The ideal subjects for testing an innate number sense are newborn infants because they haven’t had time to learn much of anything. Of course, they can’t talk, so we can’t ask them which of two ...

Duke University neuroscientists Elizabeth Brannon and Ariel Starr test a rudimentary understanding of numbers in infants called a "primitive number sense." When looking at two collections of dots ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scientists studying rats have found both male and female newborns have an innate sense of direction before they've even begun to move around, and this is likely to be the same ...

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It’s now well-established that bats can develop a mental picture of their environment using echolocation. But we’re still figuring out what that means—how bats take the echoes of their own ...

Philosophers and psychologists often debate about whether our beliefs, emotions, desires, values, etc., are innate or whether they are learned. But does this type of debate make sense? Paul Griffiths, ...

Can fish count? An experiment involving archerfish spitting at computer monitors has provided the best evidence yet that they really can distinguish between different numbers. Various studies over the ...