It's an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't.

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which engage the parts of the brain most closely associated with mathematical thinking. A 2018 meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of children ages 14 and younger ...

While previous work had compared densities from species to species or from some layers of the cortex — the outer, wrinkly part of the brain — there was little information about how the density ...