Mathematics difficulties in extremely preterm children: Evidence of a specific deficit in basic mathematics processing

Pediatric Research

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 236-244

  Simms, Victoria ^a   Gilmore, Camilla ^b   Cragg, Lucy ^c   Marlow, Neil ^d   Wolke, Dieter ^e   Johnson, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84873591761     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2012.157     Document Type: Article

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