Assistant Professor and Honors Faculty Joonkoo Park, Psychological and Brain Sciences, received a five-year, $751,000 NSF faculty early career development (CAREER) to address basic research questions about how our brains process numbers and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking. He recently co-authored a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reports where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed. Science magazine, NewsMedical.net, Science Daily, News Office release