Brain mechanisms of quantity are similar in 5-year-old children and adults. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Both 5-year-old children and adults determine the quantity of a number by the use of a similar parietal lobe mechanism. Event related potentials indicate that input from Arabic digits and from dot patterns reach areas involved in determining quantity about 200 ms after input. However, voluntary key presses indicating the relation of the input to the quantity five take almost three times as long in children. The ability to trace the networks of brain areas involved in the learning of school subjects should aid in the design and testing of educational methods.

publication date

  • June 23, 1998

Research

keywords

  • Aging
  • Brain

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC22775

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0032560532

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.95.13.7836

PubMed ID

  • 9636237

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 95

issue

  • 13