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I bet it's closer to the pattern matching part of the brain that counts objects at a glance. This is a different skill than counting with words.
by imglorp 10y ago
I bet it's closer to the pattern matching part of the brain that counts objects at a glance. This is a different skill than counting with words.
- theoh 10y agoFrom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing "Subitizing is the rapid, accurate, and confident judgement of numbers performed for small numbers of items. [...] The accuracy, speed, and confidence with which observers make judgments of the number of items are critically dependent on the number of elements to be enumerated. Judgments made for displays composed of around one to four items are rapid, accurate and confident."