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People process numbers in the parietal cortex (colored areas), but the brain reacts a bit differently when seeing a number of dots than when seeing a digit. A new study of brain images suggests that the parietal cortex processes quantities differently from symbols of those quantities. Credit: Eger, et al./Current Biology
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