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A head for numbers

The brain shows slightly different, but overlapping patterns when processing digits and dots of the same value

By Jenny Lauren Lee

- More than 2 years ago

A 2 by any other name would not be the same to the brain.

NUMERIC BRAIN 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.