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Published online 14 February 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050214-3
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Maths skills survive linguistic damage
Different processes underpin the grammars of numbers and language.
An inability to process language needn't stop you from doing maths, UK researchers have found.
They say that three men with severe aphasia, a linguistic impairment, can understand 'grammatical' rules in mathematics even though they cannot handle analogous rules in language.
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