Mathematics and its allied disciplines have historically relied heavily on the human brain to push the frontiers of the field. However, our understanding of the brain as the instrument that performs this cognitive task is woefully limited. Some of what we do know about the brain and the way it structurally changes with experience and learning, sometimes causing spurious associative learning, suggests that an understanding of the changing computational biases of the system is vital to shaping pedagogical approaches. I look at communication/language and quantitative/mathematical cognition as two examples of key human cognitive abilities, and the ways in which these two cognitive abilities may or may not share connections in the neural realm.
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