About the Authors

Marie Amalric

marie.amalric@cea.fr (MA); stanislas.dehaene@cea.fr (SD)

Affiliations Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DSV/I2BM, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif/Yvette, France, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, IFD, Paris, France, Collège de France, Paris, France

Liping Wang

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Pierre Pica

Affiliations Instituto do Cérebro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brasil, UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage CNRS, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France

Santiago Figueira

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, FCEN, University of Buenos Aires and ICC-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mariano Sigman

Affiliation Neuroscience Laboratory, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Stanislas Dehaene

marie.amalric@cea.fr (MA); stanislas.dehaene@cea.fr (SD)

Affiliations Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DSV/I2BM, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif/Yvette, France, Collège de France, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA LW SD. Performed the experiments: MA PP. Analyzed the data: MA SD MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS SF. Wrote the paper: MA MS SD SF PP.