Crossroads in the Learning Brain: The Neural Overlap Between Arithmetic and Phonological Processing.

ABSTRACT: Robust behavioral evidence suggests an association between reading and math performance. Moreover, previous neuroimaging evidence suggests that arithmetic fact retrieval is supported by similar areas along the perisylvian language network as those typically involved in phonological processing. However, the neural correlates of these abilities have been mostly studied in isolation, and therefore remains unclear whether these abilities recruit functionally overlapping brain areas. We addressed this question by using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure brain activity during an arithmetic and a word rhyming task. We then used both a test of univariate overlap and a rigorous pattern similarity analysis to provide a more nuanced assessment of brain-level associations across both dom

SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Rivero A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12797254 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature