Developmental fronto-parietal shift of brain activation during mental arithmetic across the lifespan: A registered report protocol.

ABSTRACT: Arithmetic processing is represented in a fronto-parietal network of the brain. However, activation within this network undergoes a shift from domain-general cognitive processing in the frontal cortex towards domain-specific magnitude processing in the parietal cortex. This is at least what is known about development from findings in children and young adults. In this registered report, we set out to replicate the fronto-parietal activation shift for arithmetic processing and explore for the first time how neural development of arithmetic continues during aging. This study focuses on the behavioral and neural correlates of arithmetic and arithmetic complexity across the lifespan, i.e., childhood, where arithmetic is first learned, young adulthood, when arithmetic skills are already establi

SUBMITTER: Artemenko C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8386861 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature