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Chinese Authorities Execute 10 Million Recalled Toys

A snippet from an article I read in the New Yorker about Numbers and maths and how our brains are wired to deal with them:

” The brain is the product of evolution – a messy, random process – and though the number sense may be lodged in a particular bit of the cerebal cortex, its circuitry seems to be intermingled with the wiring for other mental functions. A few years ago, while analyzing an experiment on number comparisons, Dahaene (scientist bloke) noticed that subjects performed better with large numbers if they held the response key in their right hand but did better with small numbers if they held the response key in their left hand. Strangely, if the subjects were made to cross their hands, the effect was reversed. The actual hand used to make the response was, it seemed, irrelevant; it was space itself that the subjects unconsciously associated with larger or smaller numbers. Dehaene hypothesizes that the neural circuitry for number and the circuitry for location overlap. He even suspects that this may be why travellers get disorientated entering terminal 2 of Paris’s Charles De Gaulle Airport, where small numbered gates are on the right and large numbered gates are on the left.

Numbers Guy, pg 42 New Yorker, March 3 2008

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