Title: Geometry: the language of the human brain
Summary: Throughout the world, since prehistoric times, humans of all cultures have made geometric designs such as parallel lines, squares, rectangles, circles or spirals. No other animal produces anything similar. Why is the human brain so keenly attracted to geometric regularities?
Join Dr. Stanislas Dehaene, Chair of Experimental Psychology at the Collège de France and Director of the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, as he shares his work on the brain circuits that support mathematics in all humans, from young infants and from uneducated adults to professionals. mathematicians. Additionally, Dr. Dehaene will use recent brain imaging data to discuss the nature of mathematics, its evolutionary origins, and its relationship to music and natural language.
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