Developing brains switch maths strategies

For most adults, adding small numbers requires little effort, but for some children, it can take all ten fingers and a lot of time.

Research published online on 17 August 2014 in Nature Neuroscience suggests that changes in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory formation — could help to explain how children eventually pick up efficient strategies for mathematics, and why some children learn more quickly than others. Continue reading “Developing brains switch maths strategies”

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