Your brain maps out numbers, including integers and fractions

From learning to number to solving analyzable calculations, mathematics requires an inherent enactment of information. A squad of researchers led by Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D., and Daniela Valério, Ph.D., astatine the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit (Unicog) Lab successful France took dynamic encephalon scans of adults presented with fractions and integers. Their findings, published connected Oct. 22 successful the diary PLOS Biology, revealed a representation of encephalon enactment that underlies however we put numerical information.