Number Blindness Area of Brain Discovered...!

Number Blindness Area of Brain Discovered...!

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• Jul 27, 2008 at 12:07 AM
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Have you ever wondered why Maths may not be your best subject? Well this may be all down to the parietal lobe in your brain.

The parietal lobe is located at the back of the brain and is responsible for recognising numbers according to scientists. This advancement may help in the fight against 'number blindness' or even maybe a cure, this like dyslexia is a condition affects up to one in 20 people in Britain.

This was discovered by researchers who during tests fired electromagnetic pulses at the right parietal lobe of people who were normally good at maths.

These volunteers were shown pictures of numbers but, when they had been zapped by the electromagnetic pulses suddenly found that they had the same number recognition problem as the suffers of number blindness. However to the researchers surprise when they fired the pulses at the left parietal lobe there was no impact on the volunteers ability to answer the given questions.

Dr Roy Cohen Kadosh, who led the study at University College London, said: 'We found that stimulation to this brain region during a maths test radically impacted on the subjects' reaction time.
This provides strong evidence that dyscalculia [number blindness] is caused by malformations in the right parietal lobe.

'It's an important step to the ultimate goal of early diagnosis, which in turn will lead to earlier treatments and more effective remedial teaching'.

David Power

Expert in hypnosis, success thinking and practical parenting