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by PartiallyTyped 757 days ago
There were some recent posts (either here or reddit) supporting the claim that different regions activate when reading programs vs when reading text. If we take that to be true; and squint just enough, one could claim that arithmetic and mathematics should be treated differently to language.
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Numeracy is definitely associated with different brain regions than just reading. See, e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381191...

(Dehaene also has a book, “The Numbet Sense”)