You’ve just performed a series of advanced brain functions. You did math based on prompts designed to appeal to entirely different parts of your brain and you displayed the ability to recall ...

Four scientists debate whether math is an inherent part of the universe ... and have pinpointed regions in the brain responsible for mathematical thinking. "[N]umbers are not properties of ...

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Bad at math? An electrical jolt to the brain may ... transcranial random noise stimulation (TRNS), on an area of the brain responsible for arithmetic skills, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

When people with high math anxiety saw the dreaded yellow circle, the parts of their brain linked to pain perception lit up like a pinball machine. People with low math anxiety didn't show much or ...

Four years ago, a young boy had a large part of his brain removed. In the years that followed, he showed neuroscientists, once again, how adaptable the brain can be. The boy — who is referred to ...