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The emergent mental operation of the learning brain
Tianyong Xu, Peng Tao, Jiali Mu…·Xi‐Nian Zuo
The paper tracks five-year longitudinal data of children learning abacus-based mental calculation to show how sustained practice reconfigures whole-brain states and enables complex skill acquisition.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.03.729881