Exploring the non-symbolic and symbolic arithmetic competencies in two groups of children (5-, and 7-year-olds). Additionally, we explored the relationship with domain-general factors such as inhibition and attention. Recorded fMRI.
Using T2\*-weighted eip imaging, we measured BOLD response in two cohorts of healthy children while they were doing different cognitive tasks in the scanner. These tasks included solving non-symbolic (i.e. sets of elements) and symbolic (i.e. Arabic digits) addition and subtraction problems, a color control task, an attentional task measuring different facets of spatial attention, and a task measuring inhibition. We also recorded a high-resolution anatomical scan of the brain.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
58
no intervention in a medical sense, only observing changes of BOLD signal during different experimental conditions in cognitive tasks (arithmetic, attention, inhibition)
Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne
Paris, France
BOLD response
changes of BOLD response under different experimental conditions (non-symbolic arithmetic; symbolic arithmetic; inhibition; attention)
Time frame: BOLD response recorded during fMRI session
BOLD response
changes of BOLD response in experimental conditions
Time frame: during fMRI session
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