Arithmetic problem-solving performance improves over 1.2 years in children, with larger gains on standard addition than control problems¶

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q3 i? In the event-related fMRI task, children showed significant Task-by-Time interactions for accuracy and reaction times, with larger improvements on Addition than Control problems. → Qin Shaozheng 2014

Evidence¶

Qin Shaozheng 2014¶

Qin Shaozheng, Cho Soohyun, Chen Tianwen, Rosenberg-Lee Miriam, Geary David C., Menon Vinod. (2014). Hippocampal-neocortical functional reorganization underlies children's cognitive development. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3788

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Longitudinal event-related fMRI task performance in 20 children scanned twice; repeated-measures ANOVA revealed "Task-by-Time interactions for both accuracy and RTs (F(1,19)>4.97, Ps<0.04)", with larger Addition than Control improvements. No effect size is printed.

"Notably, we observed Task-by-Time interactions for both accuracy and RTs (F(1,19)>4.97, Ps<0.04) (Fig. S1c-d), with larger improvements in solving Addition (accuracy: t(19)=2.50, P=0.022; RTs: t(19)=5.63, P<0.001) than Control (accuracy: t(19)=0.68, P=0.50; RTs: t(19)=4.34, P<0.001) problems."

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