Evolution shaped brain's math skills

Study reveals all the ancient brain regions responsible for our numerical abilities

A new study shows that processing numbers could be happening in a region deep within the brain indicating that humans might have acquired the ability early during evolution.

Researchers from Oregon Health and Science University, US, recruited 13 people with epilepsy and asked questions that made them think about numbers as symbols (such as ‘3’), as words (‘three’) and as concepts (a series of three dots). The patients were undergoing a surgical procedure to locate the originating point of seizures.