Cognitive components of a mathematical processing network in 9-year-old children.

ABSTRACT: We determined how various cognitive abilities, including several measures of a proposed domain-specific number sense, relate to mathematical competence in nearly 100 9-year-old children with normal reading skill. Results are consistent with an extended number processing network and suggest that important processing nodes of this network are phonological processing, verbal knowledge, visuo-spatial short-term and working memory, spatial ability and general executive functioning. The model was highly specific to predicting arithmetic performance. There were no strong relations between mathematical achievement and verbal short-term and working memory, sustained attention, response inhibition, finger knowledge and symbolic number comparison performance. Non-verbal intelligence measures were als

SUBMITTER: Szucs D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4253132 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature