Don't get math? Researchers home in on the brain's problem

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 13:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Can't calculate a tip or even balance your checkbook? Take heart; maybe you can blame your brain - specifically, the parietal cortex in the top back part of the head. And it could be a problem that has roots not in a failed arithmetic or "new math" lesson, but even earlier.

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