Most of us use numbers daily for counting, estimating quantities or formal mathematics, yet
despite their importance our understanding of the brain correlates of these processes is still …

The development of sub-disciplines within cognitive neuroscience follows common sense
categories such as language, audition, action, memory, emotion and perception among …

There is compelling evidence that the human cerebellum is engaged in a wide array of
motor and cognitive tasks. A fundamental question centers on whether the cerebellum is …

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 …

Amid ongoing public speculation about the reasons for sex differences in careers in science
and mathematics, we present a consensus statement that is based on the best available …

For decades, scientists who heard about synesthesia hearing colors, tasting words, seeing
colored pain just shrugged their shoulders or rolled their eyes. Now, as irrefutable evidence …

The regulation of emotion is vital for adaptive behavior in a social environment. Different
strategies may be adopted to achieve successful emotion regulation, ranging from …

Since the time of Pythagoras, numerical and spatial representations have been inextricably
linked. We suggest that the relationship between the two is deeply rooted in the brain's …

Activation of the horizontal segment of the intraparietal sulcus (hIPS) has been observed in
various number-processing tasks, whether numbers were conveyed by symbolic numerals …

A striking way in which humans differ from non-human primates is in their ability to represent
numerical quantity using abstract symbols and to use these'mental tools' to perform skills …