“…In both humans and other animals, magnitude-related, or 'prothetic', dimensions (e.g., numerosity, area, spatial length, duration, luminance and intensity) are represented using an analogue format, where representations of larger values become increasingly noisy (Cantlon, 2012;Srinivasan and Carey, 2010). Indeed, in most of the species in which quantitative discriminations have been studied, their estimations of 'more' or 'less' appear to obey…”