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What is acalculia?

What is acalculia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pathology) The condition of lacking basic mathematical skills caused by a brain injury, or more specifically an injury to the parietal lobe. [First attested in the early 20th century.]
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Dehaene had been invited to see him because his impairments included severe acalculia, a general term for any one of several deficits in number processing.
Testing of acalculia has to encroach both oral and written calculations with clinical and standardized neuropsychological tests.
Various symptoms may be associated with acalculia, including disorders of number processing and difficulties in processing arithmetical signs.
The clinical terms are acalculia, for people like Signora Gaddi who lost her sense of numbers after a stroke, and dyscalculia for people who were born without numbers.
This site gives links to pertinent other sites, including on smoker brain damage, especially acalculia, and an overview of the background on the smoking-gambling connection.
This reported acalculia, specifically anarithmetria, is a feature atypical for the pure syndrome of alexia without agraphia.

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