The ‘mental number line’ theory doesn’t appear to hold up vertically. In A Nutshell When people viewed vertical lines filled ...

Although the actual number of items differs, the brain exhibits similar activity patterns when focusing on an extra-small (XS) quantity among packs with few items (small set) and when focusing on an ...

Board games have long been a staple family-time activity or a fun way to bond with friends on a cosy night in – when they’re ...

Optical illusion tests, as the name suggests, are fun and engaging tests that claim to boost your brain functioning. How? These are strange images with one or more elements in them; the idea is to ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied the relationship between numerical information in our vision, and how it affects our perception of space. Volunteers were asked to identify ...

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 ...