What is it about?
Numbers are omnipresent in modern industrialized societies. Yet, we are only beginning to understand the exact neural and cognitive mechanisms of perceiving and understanding numerical information. This review article summarizes recent advances of cognitive neuroscientists in the understanding of the neural correlates of number processing.
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Why is it important?
Despite their importance for day-to-day life, numerical and mathematical concepts are among the hardest to acquire for students. Numeracy impairments (reduced ability to understand and manipulate numerical information) are a major obstacle for any professional career and have been shown to be associated with increased health risks. A thorough understanding of the brain mechanisms underlying numerical processing is the basis for any measure that aims at improving mathematical education or remedy of deficient numerical competencies.
Perspectives
Although the numerical cognition domain has witnessed (and produced) a significant increase of neuroimaging studies that furthered our understanding of how numerical quantities are perceived and neurally processed, we lack a coherent neurocognitively motivated process model. In this review article I summarized the state-of-the-art in number processing which can serve as a starting point for the development of an updated theoretical framework.
Dr André Knops
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
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This page is a summary of: Probing the Neural Correlates of Number Processing, The Neuroscientist, May 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1073858416650153.
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