“…In particular, converging evidence has been accumulated that the left parietooccipito-temporal region of the brain is crucial in calculation processes. One line of evidence comes from electrophysiological studies (Altenmüller, Jung, Winkler, & Landwehrmeyer, 1989;Inouye, Shinosaki, Iyama, & Mastumoto, 1993;Papanicolaou, Schmidt, Moore, & Eisenberg, 1983;Shepard & Gale, 1982). Altenmüller et al (1989) found a preponderance of left posterior activation in 65% of his subjects as indexed by a slow negative DC-shift during a complex addition task (i.e.…”