ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2019
The neural association between arithmetic and basic numerical processing depends on arithmetic problem size and not chronological age.
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- Neurodevelopmental commonalities in cognitive control networks for mathematics and reading in meta-analysis of 3308 participants.Nature communications · 2025Pooled it
- The neural correlates of retrieval and procedural strategies in mental arithmetic: A functional neuroimaging meta-analysis.Human brain mapping · 2023Pooled it
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- Mathematics Anxiety Is Associated With Attentional and Memory-Related Neural Activity During Numerical Cognition.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Crossroads in the Learning Brain: The Neural Overlap Between Arithmetic and Phonological Processing.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- No developmental fronto-parietal shift in brain activation during mental arithmetic across the lifespan: A registered report.PloS one · 2026Article
- Distinct neural representational changes following cross-format number tutoring in children with mathematical difficulties.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Activation and functional connectivity of cerebellum during reading and during arithmetic in children with combined reading and math disabilities.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- How does working memory matter in young children's arithmetic skills: The mediating role of basic number processing.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Systems-level decoding reveals the cognitive and behavioral profile of the human intraparietal sulcus.Frontiers in neuroimaging · 2022Article
- Monitoring the Cortical Activity of Children and Adults during Cognitive Task Completion.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Probing the mechanisms underlying numerosity-to-numeral mappings and their relation to math competence.Psychological research · 2021Article
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Abstract
The intraparietal sulcus (IPS) is thought to be an important region for basic number processing (e.g. symbol-quantity associations) and arithmetic (e.g. addition). Evidence for shared circuitry within the IPS is largely based on comparisons across studies, and little research has investigated number processing and arithmetic in the same individuals. It is also unclear how the neural overlap between number processing and arithmetic is influenced by age and arithmetic problem difficulty. This study investigated these unresolved questions by examining basic number processing (symbol-quantity matching) and arithmetic (addition) networks in 26 adults and 42 children. Number processing and arithmetic elicited overlapping activity in the IPS in children and adults, however, the overlap was influenced by arithmetic problem size (i.e. which modulated the need to use procedural strategies). The IPS was recruited for number processing, and for arithmetic problems more likely to be solved using procedural strategies. We also found that the overlap between number processing and small-problem addition in children was comparable to the overlap between number processing and large-problem addition in adults. This finding suggests that the association between number processing and arithmetic in the IPS is related to the cognitive operation being performed rather than age.
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