Brain hyper-connectivity and operation-specific deficits during arithmetic problem solving in children with developmental dyscalculia

Developmental Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 351-372

  Rosenberg Lee, Miriam ^a   Ashkenazi, Sarit ^a,b   Chen, Tianwen ^a   Young, Christina B ^c   Geary, David C ^d   Menon, Vinod ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; DYSCALCULIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; DYSCALCULIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 84927909273     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12216     Document Type: Article

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