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Born in 1965, he has been studying cognitive science since the last 22 years and is the author of five books, two television movies, and over 150 scientific publications in journals such asscience, nature, nature neuroscience, and pnas. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception of. Books by stanislas dehaene author of reading in the brain. The number sense by dehaene, stanislas ebook the number sense. Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by.
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