👉 Nervous math, or neural math, is a field that explores how mathematical concepts are processed and represented in the brain. It combines insights from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and mathematics to understand how the brain encodes, manipulates, and retrieves numerical information. This includes studying how neurons fire in patterns to represent numbers, the role of specific brain regions like the intraparietal sulcus in numerical cognition, and the neural mechanisms underlying arithmetic operations such as addition and multiplication. Researchers use techniques like functional MRI (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to observe brain activity during mathematical tasks, revealing that different mathematical operations engage distinct neural networks. Nervous math also delves into how mathematical skills develop, the impact of education on neural plasticity, and the cognitive strategies that optimize mathematical reasoning. By bridging abstract mathematics with biological processes, it provides a deeper understanding of the brain's computational capabilities and how these underpin our ability to think mathematically.
