A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct

Author: Andreas Nieder (Professor of Animal Physiology, University of Tubingen) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development.Humans' understanding of numbers is intuitive. Infants are able to estimate and calculate even before they learn the words for numbers. How have we come to possess this talent for numbers? In A Brain for Numbers, Andreas Nieder explains how our brains process numbers. He reports that...Read more