Arithmetic skills are associated with left fronto-temporal gray matter volume in 536 children and adolescents
Nurit Viesel-Nordmeyer, Jérôme Prado · 2023
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Description
Nurit Viesel-Nordmeyer and Jérôme Prado present a 2023 brain study on why some children are better at arithmetic than others. Past scans hunted for the brain basis of math skill in small groups and disagreed. The authors merged six imaging data sets to build a far larger sample.
The combined group held 536 children and teens aged about 7 to 15 years. All had taken arithmetic tests, and the team controlled for age, sex, language, and general intelligence. Skill tracked gray matter volume in two left-side areas: the inferior frontal gyrus and the middle temporal gyrus. These fronto-temporal zones support words and meaning. The link did not appear in the parietal areas usually tied to number work.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nurit Viesel-Nordmeyer, Jérôme Prado |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |