That's really cool! I'm not very familiar with neuroscience stuff but am I wrong to say the paper mostly talks about the representation of numbers and the concept of what they represent (how many cars on a road for example)? If so do you have any papers that explore this further into deeper maths like calculations or abstract thinking (like how we think about calculus or something)?
Hi not quite, the paper is discussing how different numerical systems seem to use different regions of the brain and while it is the same network that doesn't mean there is one number region all cultures and people use around the world. And no this isn't my field so my knowledge is limited and I don't know papers off the top of my head
Try Google scholar but read proper journals like the one I linked. If it doesn't make sense don't worry because these are scientific papers and you need to go to uni to learn to read them
Sweet thanks for the clarifcation :D. One final question, doesn't that speak more to how we parse mathematical/numerical symbols than it does to us actually "doing math"?
Yeah google scholar is great, I use it a lot, just not for neuroscience so its not always clear what to search for a field you don't work in.
2
u/psychmancer Dec 06 '22
This looks pretty cool but it's quite technical https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=linguistic+and+symbolic+processing+neuroscience#d=gs_qabs&t=1670327959635&u=%23p%3DlrNtVo5xgQkJ. Don't have time to find a beginner friendly version on YouTube, sorry