Visuo-spatial working memory is an important source of domain-general vulnerability in the development of arithmetic cognition

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2305-2317

  Ashkenazi, Sarit ^a,b   Rosenberg Lee, Miriam ^a   Metcalfe, Arron W S ^a   Swigart, Anna G ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arithmetic problem solving; Intra parietal sulcus; Mathematical disabilities; Visuo spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL DISABILITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONETICS; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ARITHMETIC PROBLEM SOLVING; INTRA-PARIETAL SULCUS; MATHEMATICAL DISABILITIES; VISUO-SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84883722727     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.06.031     Document Type: Article

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