Mathematics hurts

If a person begins to feel nervous, solving a mathematical problem, it "includes" areas of the brain responsible for physical pain. So the brain acts anticipation of computing operations.

Apparently, the fear of mathematical calculations is able to cause real pain to man. A similar reaction is sometimes fixed in response to some form of psychological stress - social rejection or a traumatic break in relations.

But this time, experts from the University of Chicago, is excited painful reaction, coupled with the expectation of frightening events. The more a person is nervous, the higher neural activity. This was proved by experiments and brain scans.

It also shows why some people are chronically unable to cope with mathematical tasks and conditional fall into the category of humanities. In turn, it is known that fear inhibits the brain by slowing down the processing of information and making it difficult to solve the puzzles.

via factroom.ru