Researchers have discovered that specific neurons in the brain treat zero as a full-fledged number. But what exactly happens ...
Hundreds of years later, in seventh-century India, zero took on a new identity. No longer a placeholder, the digit acquired a value and found its place on the number line, before one. Its invention ...
Despite its importance for mathematics, the neuronal basis of the number zero in the human brain was previously unknown. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn ...