About this title: An overview of how numbers and calculation are processed in the human brain. Using information provided by imaging techniques, the text explores the brain structures that bring numbers and neurons together and then goes on to examine the educational and philosophical implications.
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Edition: 1st Paperback Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: NY: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780195132403ISBN:0195132408
Description: Fine. 274 pages, quality trade paperback with quite a few illustrations/diagrams, couple pictures, also includes an Index. "THE NUMBER SENSE is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene, a mathematician turned cognitive neuropsychologist, describes ingenious experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, then suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. From this basic number ability, he ... read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Allen Lane / the Penguin Press, London, England
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780713991703ISBN:0713991704
Description: As New. 0713991704. Text pristine, clean & unmarked, tight to spine-274 pages. From a review by Steven Pinker: "Psychologists have been making fascinating discoveries about mathematics and the mind-how numerical understanding develops in tiny babies, how it evolved in primates, where it lies in the brain, even how it is computed by our mental software. Stanislas Dehaene, a distinguished scientist in this field, has given us an outstanding, authoratitive overview of this important new domain of ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780195132403ISBN:0195132408
Description: New. This fascinating took at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes mathematical abilities and how mathematics opens up a window on the human mind. Illustrations. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Allen Lane, 1998. 0713991704
ISBN-13:9780713991703ISBN:0713991704
Description: 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (with small tear to head of spine-otherwise VG). Pp. xi + 274 (no inscriptions). read more
Description: Good. 0195132408 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1997-11-06
ISBN-13:9780195110043ISBN:0195110048
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
"As a radiologist and medical physicist, I found the early chapters on early childhood development of a number sense and the later chapters on number-processing deficits experienced by brain-damaged patients and brain imaging to be a little slow and not particularly revealing, most likely due to my prior exposure to these topics through my professional training. The middle chapters that discussed how adults think about numbers and do calculations, however, were fascinating."
"Mind and mathematics. I read this book during Summerbridge in 06 when my cognitive science major and interest in mathematics (freshly rejuvenated since I was teaching algebra) collided. Interesting research on how the brain construes numbers & number sense, and how the brain computes. Also presented theories on why some races might be quicker at learning math than others (based on language). I liked it."
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