Finger-Based Numerical Training Increases Sensorimotor Activation for Arithmetic in Children-An fNIRS Study.

ABSTRACT: Most children use their fingers when learning to count and calculate. These sensorimotor experiences were argued to underlie reported behavioral associations of finger gnosis and counting with mathematical skills. On the neural level, associations were assumed to originate from overlapping neural representations of fingers and numbers. This study explored whether finger-based training in children would lead to specific neural activation in the sensorimotor cortex, associated with finger movements, as well as the parietal cortex, associated with number processing, during mental arithmetic. Following finger-based training during the first year of school, trained children showed finger-related arithmetic effects accompanied by activation in the sensorimotor cortex potentially associated with

SUBMITTER: Artemenko C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9139726 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature