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Andreas Nieder

Andreas Nieder

Neurophysiologist

Jul 27, 2026

WillenHOST
21:28
Is there any known disorder or disease in which these particular neurons are affected? And what is the outcome of this disease?
21:38
Yes, at the behavioral level, that's very well known.
21:42
And it correlates with these brain areas where these neurons are located.
21:47
So, for instance, in our human brain, many of us think that the posterior parietal cortex has a very specific meaning, that in this area, the neurons are extracting what a numerical quantity really means.
22:01
So the semantic of a numerical quantity.
22:04
If this area is lesioned by some, I don't know, an infarct or some insult that the brain experiences, people may lose a capability to deal with numbers or to count in a certain range.
22:18
There are some very interesting reports of patients.

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