The role of the left intraparietal sulcus in the relationship between symbolic number processing and children's arithmetic competence

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 448-457

  Bugden, Stephanie ^a   Price, Gavin R ^a   McLean, D Adam ^a   Ansari, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arithmetic skills; Children; Left intraparietal sulcus; Numerical ratio effect; Symbolic number processing

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SYMBOLIC NUMBER PROCESSING; VERBAL MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; READING; SYMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865091563     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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