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Konstantinos Priftis1, Silvia Albanese, Francesca Meneghello

  • 1Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy. konstantinos.priftis@unipd.it

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Arabic numerals are language-free symbols representing numerical magnitude.
  • Successful processing of Arabic numerals depends on the left-to-right spatial arrangement of their digits.

Observation:

  • A patient (AK) with right hemisphere damage exhibited left neglect.
  • This neglect selectively affected the processing of Arabic numerals.

Findings:

  • Left neglect specifically impaired the spatial computation for recognizing and understanding Arabic numerals.
  • The spatial frames for processing alphabetic strings and environmental information remained intact.

Implications:

  • The brain possesses distinct spatial frames for processing Arabic numerals.
  • This specialization highlights the critical role of precise spatial computation in everyday numerical tasks.