The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity analysis, that multiple regions in the human cerebral cortex flexibly ...

Lateralization of the brain—the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions—underlies the development of a left-to-right mental number line, according to a study ...

Puzzles may do more than entertain us. Source: Ben_Kerckx/Pixabay, used with permission. It may seem like a no-brainer, but the effects of brain training—using tools like word and number games to ...

Smaller numbers should pull your attention downward. At least, that’s what many studies on mental number lines suggested. But when Japanese researchers tested this assumption, they discovered ...

Despite its importance for mathematics, the neuronal basis of the number zero in the human brain was previously unknown. Researchers discovered that individual nerve cells in the medial temporal lobe ...

Lateralization of the brain – the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions – underlies the development of a left-to-right mental number line, according to a ...

Although the actual number of items differs, the brain exhibits similar activity patterns when focusing on an extra-small (XS) quantity among packs with few items (small set) and when focusing on an ...