How do brains count? - Numberphile

2020-11-14

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Professor Brian Butterworth is a neuroscientist who specialises in numbers and mathematics. More from this interview at /youtube/video/FCS4b3OjVJM and earlier videos with him at: https://bit.ly/Brian_Butterworth

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Brian's website: https://www.mathematicalbrain.com

Brian Butterworth playlist: https://bit.ly/Brian_Butterworth

Discussed papers...

Auditory midbrain neurons that count: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12219094/

Mapping human temporal and parietal neuronal population activity and functional coupling during mathematical cognition: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/46/E7277

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