Developing, mature, and unique functions of the child's brain in reading and mathematics.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive development research shows that children use basic "child-unique" strategies for reading and mathematics. This suggests that children's neural processes will differ qualitatively from those of adults during this developmental period. The goals of the current study were to 1) establish whether a within-subjects neural dissociation between reading and mathematics exists in early childhood as it does in adulthood, and 2) use a novel, developmental intersubject correlation method to test for "child-unique", developing, and adult-like patterns of neural activation within those networks. Across multiple tasks, children's reading and mathematics activity converged in prefrontal cortex, but dissociated in temporal and parietal cortices, showing similarities to the adult pattern of dissoc

SUBMITTER: Kersey AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6886692 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature