• DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0111439
Corpus ID: 7616300

Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Computation of Hierarchical Tree Structures in Mathematics

@article{Nakai2014NeuralMU,
  title={Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Computation of Hierarchical Tree Structures in Mathematics},
  author={Tomoya Nakai and K. Sakai},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2014},
  volume={9}
}

Tomoya Nakai, K. Sakai

Published 2014

Mathematics, Medicine

PLoS ONE

Whether mathematical and linguistic processes share the same neural mechanisms has been a matter of controversy. By examining various sentence structures, we recently demonstrated that activations in the left inferior frontal gyrus (L. IFG) and left supramarginal gyrus (L. SMG) were modulated by the Degree of Merger (DoM), a measure for the complexity of tree structures. In the present study, we hypothesize that the DoM is also critical in mathematical calculations, and clarify whether the DoM… CONTINUE READING

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