Parental socioeconomic status and the neural basis of arithmetic: Differential relations to verbal and visuo-spatial representations

Developmental Science

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 799-814

  Demir, Özlem Ece ^a,b   Prado, Jérôme ^c   Booth, James R ^a,d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL CLASS; VASCULARIZATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; OXYGEN; PARENTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL CLASS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84938207098     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12268     Document Type: Article

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