Seminar «Brain responses to numbers and mathematical operations: What we know from fMRI» by Marie Arsalidou, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology, HSE, Moscow, Russia)

Dear Colleagues!

Centre for Cognition & Decision Making invites you to seminar

«Brain responses to numbers and mathematical operations: What we know from fMRI» 

by Marie Arsalidou, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology HSE

 
Do you wonder what areas in the brain activate when you calculate how much things cost, estimate quantities, or solve complex math problems?  Many functional neuroimaging studies have investigated the brain regions that support numerical processes such as comparing quantities or solving addition and multiplication problems.  These studies report activity in a range of brain regions, although, they typically focus on contributions of the parietal lobe.  The role of the parietal lobes in arithmetic is undoubtedly basic, however, recent work highlights the importance of a group of brain areas that underlie mathematical problem solving, including the prefrontal cortex.  I will present data from a series of quantitative meta-analyses of fMRI data that show concordant brain activity across studies that examined number processes and mathematical operations.  The outcome is a neuroanatomical topographical model of mental arithmetic in the healthy brain in standard stereotaxic space.  The contributions of the pre-frontal cortex and hemispheric asymmetries will be discussed.


Date:           09.10.14
Time:          15.00-16.00
Address:     Volgogradsky Prosp., 46B
Room:        109