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People of all ages struggle with math, but new research suggests that a “math disability” exists. The disorder, known as “dyscalculia,” hypothesizes that individuals may in fact possess a brain abnormality that affects procedural memory, which is responsible for learning and automatized skills. Michael Ullman, a professor of neuroscience and director of the brain and language laboratory at Georgetown University, and Tanya Evans, a postdoctoral research fellow in child psychiatry at the Stanford School of Medicine, explain how this could guide future research.
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