In blind people, brain’s vision center plays role in solving math problems

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 17:01 in Psychology & Sociology

Human babies and even animals have a basic number sense that many believe evolves from seeing the world and trying to quantify all the sights. But vision has nothing to do with it—Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists have found that the brain network behind numerical reasoning is identical in blind and sighted people. The researchers also […]

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