Undergraduates more numerate?

Cognitive Neuroscience: Numerate Neurons

Whether the neuronal encoding of number is linear or logarithmic divides cognitive neuroscientists working on mathematical cognition. Recordings from the prefrontal cortex of the monkey support the logarithmic hypothesis. Similarities between number and the coding of other quantities are also beginning to become apparent.

Agrammatic but numerate.

A central question in cognitive neuroscience concerns the extent to which language enables other higher cognitive functions. In the case of mathematics, the resources of the language faculty, both lexical and syntactic, have been claimed to be important for exact calculation, and some functional brain imaging studies have shown that calculation is associated with activation of a network of left...

Are medical undergraduates more likely to indulge in substance abuse than non-medical undergraduates? A survey from Karachi.

OBJECTIVE To determine frequency of substance abuse and the commonest substance of abuse among medical and non-medical undergraduates. STUDY DESIGN Survey report. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Dow International Medical College, Karachi, from June 2012 to August 2012. METHODOLOGY Semester VIII students from Dow International Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences who visited the ...

Teaching Undergraduates About LGBTQ Identities, Families, and Intersectionality: Teaching Undergraduates

Teaching undergraduate students about LGBTQ identities and family issues presents several challenges, or “opportunities,” which we address within personal, ecological, and historical contexts. We begin by articulating our positionality as scholars and instructors, and the feminist intersectional and queer lens that guides our research and pedagogy. We organize our presentation of contemporary t...

The numerate brain: development, enculturation and individual differences