Neuropsychological studies on patients with brain lesions have contributed to contemporary understanding of numerical processing on equal footing with studies of healthy populations. Having carved the cognitive chicken at its joints via the traditional method of studying neuropsychological dissociations has thus paid handsomely. Indeed, also thanks to fast-improving neuroimaging techniques, but mainly thanks to increasingly refi ned conceptual tools newly applied in clinical research, we are witnessing an unprecedented progress in the interdisciplinary domain of mathematical cognition. Fascinating new data are emerging on how and where the brain represents numbers and performs calculation. The relation that numerical cognition has with language is much clearer than it was just a decade ago.
Number processing.
SEMENZA, CARLO
2008
Abstract
Neuropsychological studies on patients with brain lesions have contributed to contemporary understanding of numerical processing on equal footing with studies of healthy populations. Having carved the cognitive chicken at its joints via the traditional method of studying neuropsychological dissociations has thus paid handsomely. Indeed, also thanks to fast-improving neuroimaging techniques, but mainly thanks to increasingly refi ned conceptual tools newly applied in clinical research, we are witnessing an unprecedented progress in the interdisciplinary domain of mathematical cognition. Fascinating new data are emerging on how and where the brain represents numbers and performs calculation. The relation that numerical cognition has with language is much clearer than it was just a decade ago.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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