Developmental dyscalculia is related to visuo-spatial memory and inhibition impairment.

ABSTRACT: Developmental dyscalculia is thought to be a specific impairment of mathematics ability. Currently dominant cognitive neuroscience theories of developmental dyscalculia suggest that it originates from the impairment of the magnitude representation of the human brain, residing in the intraparietal sulcus, or from impaired connections between number symbols and the magnitude representation. However, behavioral research offers several alternative theories for developmental dyscalculia and neuro-imaging also suggests that impairments in developmental dyscalculia may be linked to disruptions of other functions of the intraparietal sulcus than the magnitude representation. Strikingly, the magnitude representation theory has never been explicitly contrasted with a range of alternatives in a syste

SUBMITTER: Szucs D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3878850 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature