https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/gsk-3008348-h
Two experiments are presented that use tasks common in research in numerical cognition with young adults and older adults as subjects. In these tasks, one or two arrays of dots are displayed, and subjects decide whether there are more or fewer dots of one kind than another. Results show that older adults, relative to young adults, tend to rely more on the perceptual feature, area, in making numerosity judgments when area is correlated with numerosity. Also, convex hull unexpectedly shows different effects depending on