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Despite how you were born (excepting of course retardation or some developmental disorder/mental condition, which I'll tentatively assume no one on /sci/ has), this neurological study suggests that the preponderance of gray matter in cortical regions related to mathematical ability INCREASE as a function of how long the mathematician has been in academia (i.e. doing math, practicing).

FULL TEXT: http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/full/28/10/1859

TL;DR CONCLUSION: The voxel-based morphometric analysis of mathematicians’ brains revealed increased gray matter density in the cortical regions related to mathematic thinking. The correlation between cortical density increase and the time spent as an academician suggests experience-dependent structural plasticity in mathematicians’ brains.

What we have always wished to be true, the notion that we _can_ be anything we set our minds to, does seem to be true according to science.

/"you will never..."

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>manly tears

>> No.2975330

Are you saying all I have to do is practice?

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>>2975330

And OP thinks no one on /sci/ has a developmental disorder.

>> No.2975340

Well, an extremely old saying goes "Practice makes perfect.". I have seen this as quite obvious.

>> No.2975351

>>2975330
Clearly MANY years of practice would be necessary to stimulate such profound neuroplastic changes as seen in the study. Since younger brains are known to be more plastic, this would suggest that people who started younger are more likely to be better.

>> No.2975365

so i'm 20. I've been doing math for roughly ~15years?

The farther i progress into math the more it makes sense and the better i get. It seems like i'm developing a 'feel' for it if that makes sense. Anyone else have similar experiences?

>> No.2975377

>>2975365
you haven't been doing math for 15 years unless you've been doing it 8 hrs a day.

>> No.2975405

>>2975377
Of course not, but then you knew what i meant. Why you wish to address that single specific part i dont know. For 15 years of my life i've been practicing math, i haven't practiced math for 15 years. happy fag?

>> No.2975441

>>2975405
Those 15min a day of math of yours for 15 years don't make much difference. You can't go around claiming to do math for that long.

>> No.2975476

>>2975441
your post is irrelevant, i'm not here nor will i waste anymore time debating what quantifies as meaningfully time spent practicing mathematics. Maybe you misunderstood my post about developing a 'feel' for math as some type of claim to mastery? I was just stating that i've noticed within my thought processes a clear rise in understanding of certain mathematical concepts the farther along i go into it. I also understand new concepts much quicker than say i did in my first semester of calc