Part of human cortex is specialized for cultural domains such as reading and arithmetic,
whose invention is too recent to have influenced the evolution of our species …

Demonstrations that grip strength has predictive power in relation to a range of health
conditions—even when these are assessed decades later—has motivated claims that hand …

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of
functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has …

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from
complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

Did evolution endow the human brain with a predisposition to represent dedicated domains
of knowledge? We have previously argued that the number domain provides a good …

Does the human capacity for mathematical intuition depend on linguistic competence or on
visuo-spatial representations? A series of behavioral and brain-imaging experiments …

Number symbols have allowed humans to develop superior mathematical skills that are a
hallmark of technologically advanced cultures. Findings in animal cognition, developmental …

The negative effects of sleep deprivation on alertness and cognitive performance suggest
decreases in brain activity and function, primarily in the thalamus, a subcortical structure …

We describe two acalculic patients, one with a left subcortical lesion and the other with a
right inferior parietal lesion and Gerstmann's syndrome. Both suffered from “pure …