The brain performs feats of math to make sense of the world

Monday, August 29, 2016 - 07:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Even if we find it difficult to calculate complicated probabilities on the spot, our brains constantly carry out these sorts of computations without our awareness — and they’re remarkably good at it. Princeton University researchers show in a new study how our brains combine complicated observations from our surroundings into a simple assessment of the […]

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