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

Monday, August 29, 2016 - 14:32 in Psychology & Sociology

Researchers have found that the brain is quite good at rapidly and subconsciously calculating the likelihood of various events, and remain flexible enough to account for new information. They traced these abilities to a region of the brain located just behind our eyes known as the orbitofrontal cortex.

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