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Are Math Skills Built In To The Human Brain?


May 27, 2011



May 27, 2011

 
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May 27, 2011

Psychologist Véronique Izard discusses a study that suggests Amazonian villagers with no math schooling are just as equipped to solve basic geometry problems as math-trained adults, and cognitive neuropsychologist Brian Butterworth talks about the arithmetic cousin of dyslexia, dyscalculia.

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