Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review

Suárez‐Pellicioni, Macarena; Prado, Jérôme; Booth, James R.

doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101228

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“…Unlike for the IPS, the right PSPL is not considered to be specific to quantity-based processing, but to mechanisms of visuo-spatial attention, which might be progressively engaged or “recycled” in these tasks during arithmetic education ( Hubbard et al, 2005 ; Dehaene and Cohen, 2007 ; Knops et al, 2009 ; Prado et al, 2014 ). Learning arithmetic facts in multiplications and additions, might rely on different strategies and developmental correlates ( Suárez-Pellicioni et al, 2022 ). Interestingly, activation in language-related areas, is not consistently evidenced in developmental studies (e.g., Rosenberg-Lee et al, 2011a , b ; Prado et al, 2014 ; Soltanlou et al, 2018 ; Declercq et al, 2022 ).…”

Section: The Developmental Changes Of Lateralitymentioning

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The brain lateralization and development of math functions: progress since Sperry, 1974

Salillas,

Benavides-Varela,

Semenza

2023

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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In 1974, Roger Sperry, based on his seminal studies on the split-brain condition, concluded that math was almost exclusively sustained by the language dominant left hemisphere. The right hemisphere could perform additions up to sums less than 20, the only exception to a complete left hemisphere dominance. Studies on lateralized focal lesions came to a similar conclusion, except for written complex calculation, where spatial abilities are needed to display digits in the right location according to the specific requirements of calculation procedures. Fifty years later, the contribution of new theoretical and instrumental tools lead to a much more complex picture, whereby, while left hemisphere dominance for math in the right-handed is confirmed for most functions, several math related tasks seem to be carried out in the right hemisphere. The developmental trajectory in the lateralization of math functions has also been clarified. This corpus of knowledge is reviewed here. The right hemisphere does not simply offer its support when calculation requires generic space processing, but its role can be very specific. For example, the right parietal lobe seems to store the operation-specific spatial layout required for complex arithmetical procedures and areas like the right insula are necessary in parsing complex numbers containing zero. Evidence is found for a complex orchestration between the two hemispheres even for simple tasks: each hemisphere has its specific role, concurring to the correct result. As for development, data point to right dominance for basic numerical processes. The picture that emerges at school age is a bilateral pattern with a significantly greater involvement of the right-hemisphere, particularly in non-symbolic tasks. The intraparietal sulcus shows a left hemisphere preponderance in response to symbolic stimuli at this age.

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Section: The Developmental Changes Of Lateralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The brain lateralization and development of math functions: progress since Sperry, 1974

Salillas,

Benavides-Varela,

Semenza

2023

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Structural and transcriptional signatures of arithmetic abilities in children

Zhang,

Xie,

Wang

et al. 2024

npj Sci. Learn.

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Arithmetic ability is critical for daily life, academic achievement, career development, and future economic success. Individual differences in arithmetic skills among children and adolescents are related to variations in brain structures. Most existing studies have used hypothesis-driven region of interest analysis. To identify distributed brain regions related to arithmetic ability, we used data-driven cross-validated predictive models to analyze cross-sectional behavioral and structural MRI data in children and adolescents. The gray matter volume (GMV) of widespread brain regions reliably predicted arithmetic abilities measured by the Comprehensive Mathematical Abilities Test. Furthermore, we applied neuroimaging-transcriptome association analysis to explore transcriptional signatures associated with structural patterns of arithmetic ability. Structural patterns of arithmetic ability primarily correlated with transcriptional profiles enriched for genes involved in transmembrane transport and synaptic signaling. Our findings enhance our understanding of the neural and genetic mechanisms underlying children’s arithmetic ability and offer a practical predictor for arithmetic skills during development.

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Brain markers of subtraction and multiplication skills in childhood: task-based functional connectivity and individualized structural similarity

Li,

Fang,

Fan

et al. 2024

Cerebral Cortex

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Arithmetic, a high-order cognitive ability, show marked individual difference over development. Despite recent advancements in neuroimaging techniques have enabled the identification of brain markers for individual differences in high-order cognitive abilities, it remains largely unknown about the brain markers for arithmetic. This study used a data-driven connectome-based prediction model to identify brain markers of arithmetic skills from arithmetic-state functional connectivity and individualized structural similarity in 132 children aged 8 to 15 years. We found that both subtraction-state functional connectivity and individualized SS successfully predicted subtraction and multiplication skills but multiplication-state functional connectivity failed to predict either skill. Among the four successful prediction models, most predictive connections were located in frontal–parietal, default-mode, and secondary visual networks. Further computational lesion analyses revealed the essential structural role of frontal–parietal network in predicting subtraction and the essential functional roles of secondary visual, language, and ventral multimodal networks in predicting multiplication. Finally, a few shared nodes but largely nonoverlapping functional and structural connections were found to predict subtraction and multiplication skills. Altogether, our findings provide new insights into the brain markers of arithmetic skills in children and highlight the importance of studying different connectivity modalities and different arithmetic domains to advance our understanding of children’s arithmetic skills.

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Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review

Cited by 4 publications

References 93 publications

The brain lateralization and development of math functions: progress since Sperry, 1974

The brain lateralization and development of math functions: progress since Sperry, 1974

Structural and transcriptional signatures of arithmetic abilities in children

Brain markers of subtraction and multiplication skills in childhood: task-based functional connectivity and individualized structural similarity

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