Relations between balancing and arithmetic skills in children - Evidence of cerebellar involvement?

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 592-601

  Lonnemann, Jan ^a,b   Linkersdörfer, Janosch ^a,b   Heselhaus, Vera ^a,b   Hasselhorn, Marcus ^a,b,c   Lindberg, Sven ^b,c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk IDeA   (Germany)

^c GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Balancing; Cerebellum

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 79961029133     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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