A recent study published in Scientific Reports provides evidence that the human brain processes the physical length of a multi-digit number at the very earliest stages of visual perception. The ...

Smaller numbers should pull your attention downward. At least, that’s what many studies on mental number lines suggested. But when Japanese researchers tested this assumption, they discovered ...

Lateralization of the brain—the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions—underlies the development of a left-to-right mental number line, according to a study ...

If you have a child in school right now, you may have heard them talk about needing a “brain break” while doing homework or studying for a test. Maybe they shake their bodies out, do some deep ...