Number adaptation: A bibliography
While we are skeptical about the existence of number adaptation, we think that the idea that humans perceptually adapt to number is a fascinating idea and have compiled this page as a resource for other researchers interested in the topic. We aim to list all experimental reports of perceptual number adaptation published since David Burr and John Ross’s groundbreaking 2008 paper on the topic in Current Biology. Please let us know if you spot any omissions — we’re always happy to update the list!
- A visual sense of number
D Burr, J Ross — Current Biology, 2008 - Texture density adaptation and visual number revisited
FH Durgin — Current Biology, 2008 - Response: visual number
D Burr, J Ross — Current Biology, 2008 - Vision senses number directly
J Ross, D Burr — Nature Precedings, 2009 - Adaptation affects both high and low (subitized) numbers under conditions of high attentional load
D Burr, G Anobile, M Turi — Seeing and Perceiving, 2011 - Effects of awareness on numerosity adaptation
W Liu, ZJ Zhang, YJ Zhao, ZF Liu, BC Li — PloS One, 2013 - Psychophysical evidence for a generalized sense of number
R Arrighi — Multisensory Research, 2013 - Separate mechanisms for perception of numerosity and density
G Anobile, GM Cicchini, DC Burr — Psychological Science, 2014 - A generalized sense of number
R Arrighi, I Togoli, DC Burr — Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2014 - A texture-processing model of the 'visual sense of number'
MJ Morgan, S Raphael, MS Tibber, SC Dakin — Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2014 - Cortical remapping features of numerosity adaptation aftereffects
Z Zhang, W Liu, Y Zhao, J Zhang, WU Binxing — Acta Psychologica, 2014 - Children with autism spectrum disorder show reduced adaptation to number
M Turi, DC Burr, R Igliozzi, D Aagten-Murphy, F Muratori, E Pellicano — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 - Atypicalities in perceptual adaptation in autism do not extend to perceptual causality
T Karaminis, M Turi, L Neil, NA Badcock, D Burr, E Pellicano — PloS one, 2015 - Numerosity adaptation along the Y-Axis affects numerosity perception along the X-Axis: does numerosity adaptation activate MNLs?
W Liu, ZJ Zhang, BC Li, YJ Zhao, Y Tang — Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2015 - Effects of adaptation on numerosity decoding in the human brain
E Castaldi, D Aagten-Murphy, M Tosetti, D Burr, MC Morrone — NeuroImage, 2016 - Number as a primary perceptual attribute: A review
G Anobile, GM Cicchini, DC Burr — Perception, 2016 - Adaptation to number operates on perceived rather than physical numerosity
M Fornaciai, GM Cicchini, DC Burr — Cognition, 2016 - A shared numerical representation for action and perception
G Anobile, R Arrighi, I Togoli, DC Burr — eLife, 2016 - Magnitudes in the coding of visual multitudes: Evidence from adaptation
FH Durgin — Continuous Issues in Numerical Cognition, 2016 - Adaptation to numerosity requires only brief exposures, and is determined by number of events, not exposure duration
D Aagten-Murphy, D Burr — Journal of Vision, 2016 - Numerosity perception after size adaptation
E Zimmermann, GR Fink — Scientific Reports, 2016 - A shared numerical representation for action and perception
A Giovanni, R Arrighi, T Irene, DC Burr — eLife, 2016 - Independent adaptation mechanisms for numerosity and size perception provide evidence against a common sense of magnitude
G Anobile, DC Burr, M Iaia, CV Marinelli, P Angelelli, M Turi — Scientific Reports, 2018 - Typical numerosity adaptation despite selectively impaired number acuity in dyscalculia
G Anobile, GM Cicchini, F Gasperini, DC Burr — Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Adaptation reveals unbalanced interaction between numerosity and time
A Tsouli, SO Dumoulin, SF Te Pas, MJ van der Smagt — Cortex, 2019 - Adaptation to hand-tapping affects sensory processing of numerosity directly: evidence from reaction times and confidence
PA Maldonado Moscoso, GM Cicchini, R Arrighi, DC Burr — Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2020 - Number adaptation can be dissociated from density adaptation
K DeSimone, M Kim, RF Murray — Psychological Science, 2020 - Adaptation to visual numerosity changes neural numerosity selectivity
A Tsouli, Y Cai, M van Ackooij, S Hofstetter, BM Harvey, SF te Pas, MK van der Smagt, SO Dumoulin — NeuroImage, 2021 - Numerosity adaptation partly depends on the allocation of implicit numerosity-contingent visuo-spatial attention
PA Grasso, G Anobile, R Arrighi — Journal of Vision, 2021 - Evidence for an A-modal number sense: numerosity adaptation generalizes across visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli
I Togoli, R Arrighi — Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 - Implicit visuospatial attention shapes numerosity adaptation and perception
PA Grasso, G Anobile, C Caponi, R Arrighi — Journal of Vision, 2021 - When color “counts”: evidence of color-selective numerosity adaptation
PA Grasso, G Anobile, GM Cicchini, DC Burr, R Arrighi — Perception, 2021 - Numerosity perception is tuned to salient environmental features
PA Grasso, G Anobile, R Arrighi, DC Burr, GM Cicchini — iScience, 2022 - Visual adaptation reveals multichannel coding for numerosity
LS Aulet, SF Lourenco — Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - Adaptation to numerosity affects the pupillary light response
C Caponi, E Castaldi, DC Burr, P Binda — Scientific Reports, 2024 - Adaptation to Illusory Contours reveals a discrete Numerosity perception
A Adriano, A Content, MV Velde — unpublished - Effects of spatial frequency cross-adaptation on the visual number sense
CD Bonn, D Odic - Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses
L Zhang, E Hendrik, Y Wang, S Gayet, SO Dumoulin, BM Harvey - Number adaptation: A critical look
SR Yousif, S Clarke, EM Brannon - Number adaptation: Reply
D Burr, G Anobile, R Arrighi - Refreshing the conversation about adaptation and perceived numerosity: A reply to Yousif, Clarke and Brannon
FH Durgin - Seven reasons to (still) doubt the existence of number adaptation: A rebuttal to Burr et al. and Durgin
SR Yousif, S Clarke, EM Brannon - Feature-selective adaptation of numerosity perception
C Caponi, E Castaldi, PA Grasso, R Arrighi