Exploring the Bidirectional Relationship Between Numerical Cognition and Motor Performance: A Systematic Review
Eliane Rached, Jihan Allaw, Joy Khayat, Hassan Karaki, Ahmad Diab, Antonio Pinti, Ahmad Rifai Sarraj, Eleftherios Paraskevopoulos, Maria Papandreou, Dimitris G Mandalidis, George M Pamboris · 2025
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Rached and co-authors review how number skills and body movement shape each other. Number work and motor tasks draw on overlapping brain systems. Yet how strongly each one drives the other was unclear. The team searched six databases plus journals and conference records through August 2025. They kept lab studies in healthy adults that tested both directions of the link.
Twelve studies met the entry rules. Most found that number cues changed how people moved. The review also weighs how movement feeds back into number thinking. Two reviewers screened studies, pulled data, and rated quality on their own. The authors map the brain paths that may join the two skills.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Eliane Rached, Jihan Allaw, Joy Khayat, Hassan Karaki, Ahmad Diab, Antonio Pinti, Ahmad Rifai Sarraj, Eleftherios Paraskevopoulos, Maria Papandreou, Dimitris G Mandalidis, George M Pamboris |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |