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Front. Hum. Neurosci. , 13 March 2025

Sec. Cognitive Neuroscience

Volume 19 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1569293

Corrigendum: Dazzled by the mystery of mentalism: the cognitive neuroscience of mental athletes

\nAndres Rieznik,,
Andres Rieznik1,2,3*Mikhail LebedevMikhail Lebedev4Mariano Sigman,Mariano Sigman1,3
  • 1CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2El Gato y La Caja, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 3Neuroscience Laboratory, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 4Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

A corrigendum on
Dazzled by the mystery of mentalism: the cognitive neuroscience of mental athletes

by Rieznik, A., Lebedev, M., and Sigman, M. (2017). Front. Hum. Neurosci. 11:287. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00287

In the published article, in eighth paragraph, the following text: “Daniel Tammet is famous because of his extraordinary calculation abilities. He is attributes his skills to an epileptic attack at his infancy,” was incorrectly attributed to: Bor et al., 2008. It should be attributed to: Foer, 2011, Chapter 10, p. 215.

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords: mental athletes, augmented cognition, prodigies, savant syndrome, arithmetic operation

Citation: Rieznik A, Lebedev M and Sigman M (2025) Corrigendum: Dazzled by the mystery of mentalism: the cognitive neuroscience of mental athletes. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 19:1569293. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2025.1569293

Received: 31 January 2025; Accepted: 07 February 2025;
Published: 13 March 2025.

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*Correspondence: Andres Rieznik, YXJpZXpuaWtAZ21haWwuY29t

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