Neural Representation Precision of Distance Predicts Children's Arithmetic Performance.

ABSTRACT: Focusing on the distance between magnitudes as the starting point to investigate the mechanism of relation detection and its contribution to mathematical thinking, this study explores the precision of neural representations of numerical distance and their impact on children's arithmetic performance. By employing neural decoding techniques and representational similarity analysis, the present study investigates how accurately the brain represents numerical distances and how this precision relates to arithmetic skills. Twenty-nine school-aged children participated, completing a dot number comparison task during fMRI scanning and an arithmetic fluency test. Results indicated that neural activation patterns in the intra-parietal sulcus decoded the distance between the presented pair of dots, a

SUBMITTER: Zhao H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11877336 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature