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Jessica Cantlon is the Ronald J. Mary Ann Zdrojkowski Professor of Developmental Neuroscience/Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology within the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research employs behavioral neuroimaging methods to explore the origins of quantitative reasoning in humans, including adults, children, and non-human primates. Jessica's work demonstrates the impact of early-developing, evolutionarily primitive nonverbal concepts on human thought processes. Through her behavioral methods, she has observed parallel numerical processing capabilities in both human children and non-human primates. Utilization of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revealed that the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) is involved in processing quantitative information in children as young as four years old. Her research elucidates the primitive cognitive and neural bases of the development of human mathematical cognition, which is derived from ancient evolutionary processes.
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