Math, using more than one symbol, was not a friend," one Facebook user admitted in defeat. BRAIN TEASER: REMEMBER PEMDAS? TRY SOLVING THIS MATH EQUATION . Need help to solve the math problem?

A new study finds that brain stimulation can lead to better math skills. Nov. 4, 2010— -- Math: People either love it or hate it. For all the haters out there, what if a little zap to the ...

These two tests represented two different aspects of learning: the first involved simply recognizing and memorizing the meaning of a mathematical symbol, while the second helped to measure to what ...

To capture these quicksilver mental operations, the team first taught 80 men and women how to interpret a set of math symbols and equations they had not seen before.

Brain teasers have captivated people for centuries, but in the digital age, they spread like wildfire. These puzzles ...

Your Brain on Math. 1 minute read. Getty Images. ... foreign numeral symbols from languages they didn’t know and at images of distorted numbers and letters that were unreadable.

Bad at math? An electrical jolt to the brain may be ... Cohen's team conducted a study in 2010 that found shocks to the brain helped five students better learn a series of symbols that they had ...

Sept. 4 -- The new school year looms ominously for many who claim to lack a "mathematical brain," and so it may be a good time to review the findings of Brian Butterworth and Stanislaus Dehaene ...

Students were shown a symbol before each question, telling them whether the item would be math- or spelling-related. So the brain scan was able to distinguish a student’s anxiety about the ...

Profile of man and his brain iStockphoto (By Charles Q. Choi, This story originally appeared on LiveScience) Stimulating the brain with a weak current of electricity can enhance a person's math ...

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers ...

Enlightening Symbols Joseph Mazur Princeton Univ., $29.95 . As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent ...