High resolution event-related potentials analysis of the arithmetic-operation effect in mental arithmetic

Muluh, E.T.; Vaughan, Christopher L.; John, L.R.

doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2010.08.008

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“…Furthermore, children in the current study exhibited greater P1 amplitude during small relative to large solutions, and for incorrect relative to correct solutions. While P1 amplitude modulations as a function of solution size may be attributed to differing physical properties or spatial distributions of attention between small (e.g., 9) and large (e.g., 17; Mangun and Hillyard, 1991; Luck et al, 1994; Muluh et al, 2011) solutions, neither physical properties nor attentional distribution can account for amplitude modulations as a function of solution correctness (see Figure 2). As such, further research appears necessary to elucidate the meaning and theoretical implications of P1 amplitude modulations during arithmetic verification in relation to fitness and task parameters.…”

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“…Similar to previous investigations (Prieto-Corona et al, 2010; Muluh et al, 2011; Núñez-Peña and Suárez-Pellicioni, 2012) regions of interest (ROIs) were created. Specifically, P1, N170, and P3 component values were formulated by averaging electrode sites into 3 regions: left (P7, PO7, P5, PO5, P3, PO3), center (P1, PZ, POZ, P2), and right (P8, PO8, P6, PO6, P4, PO4) using similar factorial models as described above with the addition of a region factor.…”

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“…; Niedeggen et al, 1999; Jost et al, 2004; Domahs et al, 2007; Jasinski and Coch, 2012); linking this component to the P600 (Núñez-Peña and Honrubia-Serrano, 2004; Núñez-Peña et al, 2004). In addition, earlier ERP components such as the N1/N170 have been systematically modulated during numerical paradigms (Dehaene, 1996; Szũcs and Goswami, 2007; Hyde and Spelke, 2009, 2012; Palomares et al, 2011); however, the functional interpretation of these components remains controversial (Feigenson et al, 2004; Muluh, 2011; Heine et al, 2012) and seldom explored during arithmetic verification tasks (He et al, 2011; Muluh et al, 2011). …”

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The influence of cardiorespiratory fitness on strategic, behavioral, and electrophysiological indices of arithmetic cognition in preadolescent children

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Drollette

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et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The current study investigated the influence of cardiorespiratory fitness on arithmetic cognition in forty 9–10 year old children. Measures included a standardized mathematics achievement test to assess conceptual and computational knowledge, self-reported strategy selection, and an experimental arithmetic verification task (including small and large addition problems), which afforded the measurement of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). No differences in math achievement were observed as a function of fitness level, but all children performed better on math concepts relative to math computation. Higher fit children reported using retrieval more often to solve large arithmetic problems, relative to lower fit children. During the arithmetic verification task, higher fit children exhibited superior performance for large problems, as evidenced by greater d' scores, while all children exhibited decreased accuracy and longer reaction time for large relative to small problems, and incorrect relative to correct solutions. On the electrophysiological level, modulations of early (P1, N170) and late ERP components (P3, N400) were observed as a function of problem size and solution correctness. Higher fit children exhibited selective modulations for N170, P3, and N400 amplitude relative to lower fit children, suggesting that fitness influences symbolic encoding, attentional resource allocation and semantic processing during arithmetic tasks. The current study contributes to the fitness-cognition literature by demonstrating that the benefits of cardiorespiratory fitness extend to arithmetic cognition, which has important implications for the educational environment and the context of learning.

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The influence of cardiorespiratory fitness on strategic, behavioral, and electrophysiological indices of arithmetic cognition in preadolescent children

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“…In particular, ERP research employing a delayed answer verification task has focused almost exclusively on multiplication and addition processing (e.g., Domahs et al, ; Jost, Hennighausen, & Rosler, ; Niedeggen & Rosler, ; Niedeggen, Rosler, & Jost, ; Szücs & Csépe, , ; Szücs & Soltész, ). Further, most of this research has concentrated on ERPs elicited by solutions to arithmetic problems, with only a few studies examining processing of the problems themselves (e.g., Muluh, Vaughan, & John, ; Szücs & Csépe, ; Zhou et al, ). The present study considered ERPs elicited during a delayed answer verification task by both problems and solutions across all four arithmetic operations.…”

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“…A number of ERP studies have used a delayed answer verification task to investigate online processing related to basic arithmetic, although none has directly compared both problem and solution processing across the four operations (e.g., Domahs et al, ; Jost, Hennighausen, & Rosler, ; Muluh et al, ; Niedeggen & Rosler, ; Niedeggen et al, ; Szücs & Csépe, ; Szücs, Soltész, Czigler, & Csépe, ; Szücs & Soltész, ; Wang, Kong, Tang, Zhuang, & Shunwei, ). Most have considered only ERPs time‐locked to the presentation of the answer, theoretically indexing a comparison phase of the delayed answer verification task.…”

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ERPs across arithmetic operations in a delayed answer verification task

Jasinski

Coch

2012

Psychophysiology

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In order to compare processing across operations, we recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by both problems and solutions in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division conditions in a delayed answer verification task. Amplitudes of an early negativity, P300, and late positive component (LPC) elicited by solutions were sensitive to the correctness of the presented answers within operations and differed across operations only for incorrect solutions. The early negativity resembled an N270 rather than an N400. The amplitude of an N300 elicited by problem presentations also differed across operations. Our results indicate that ERPs are sensitive to differences in processing across arithmetic operations in an answer verification task both during presentation of the problems, when production/retrieval processes occur, and during comparison of incorrect presented solutions with expected solutions.

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Mathematical problem solving is modulated by word priming

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Zhang,

Lyu

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PsyCh Journal

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This study aimed to explore the influence of word priming on mathematical problem solving. In two experiments, participants were required to finish multiplication estimation tasks with a specified estimation strategy under different word priming conditions (Experiment 1: concrete words vs. Experiment 2: abstract words). The results showed that: (1) under the concrete word priming condition, in comparison to neutral, positive word priming improved accuracies (ACCs) when using a down‐up strategy (e.g., doing 40 × 80 = 3200 for 43 × 78), while both positive and negative word priming reduced reaction time (RT); (2) under the abstract word priming condition, both positive and negative (vs. neutral) abstract word priming reduced RTs, while individuals’ ACCs of completing the estimation task were not influenced by valence. The present study showed that whether concrete words or abstract words were adopted as experimental stimuli, participants’ performance of completing mathematical problems was modulated by the valence of the priming word, which led us to develop a better understanding of how arithmetic performance is influenced by word processing.

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High resolution event-related potentials analysis of the arithmetic-operation effect in mental arithmetic

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The influence of cardiorespiratory fitness on strategic, behavioral, and electrophysiological indices of arithmetic cognition in preadolescent children

The influence of cardiorespiratory fitness on strategic, behavioral, and electrophysiological indices of arithmetic cognition in preadolescent children

ERPs across arithmetic operations in a delayed answer verification task

Mathematical problem solving is modulated by word priming

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