Both hemispheres of the brain process numbers

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 10:57 in Psychology & Sociology

The human brain works with division of labour. Although our thinking organ excels in displaying amazing flexibility and plasticity, typically different areas of the brain take over different tasks. While words and language are mainly being processed in the left hemisphere, the right hemisphere is responsible for numerical reasoning. According to previous findings, this division […]

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