Babies are born with the neural foundations for maths
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Brain recordings from 21 newborns aged 0–3 days old using EEG caps revealed for the first time neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers, with electrical activity in the parietotemporal area decreasing when visual dots matched spoken syllables—the first identification of the neural mechanism underlying this innate ability.
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