What difference does a year of schooling make?. Maturation of brain response and connectivity between 2nd and 3rd grades during arithmetic problem solving

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 796-808

  Rosenberg Lee, Miriam ^a   Barth, Maria ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Children; Dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex; FMRI; Intraparietal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR GYRUS; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MENTAL CAPACITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 79959696575     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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