Children engaged number-selective neural responses in the intraparietal sulci during educational videos, and boys and girls did so equally¶
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q3 i? Across three natural viewing tasks, children showed number- or math-selective activation in the intraparietal sulci, and independent t tests found no differences between girls and boys. → Kersey 2019
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Kersey 2019¶
Kersey, A. J., Csumitta, K. D., & Cantlon, J. F. (2019). Gender similarities in the brain during mathematics development. npj Science of Learning 4:19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-019-0057-x
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Three naturalistic viewing fMRI studies (Studies 1–3) showing right IPS number/math selectivity, e.g. Study 2 RIPS: t(34) = 6.86, Cohen's d = 1.16. The article reports independent t tests suggested "no differences between girls and boys (max t value = 0.84, min p value = 0.41)" with Bayes factors favoring similarities.
"Children showed number-selective neural activation in the intraparietal sulci (IPS) during the mathematics content in the educational videos (Fig. 2) consistent with previous fMRI research on numerical cognition in children and adults."
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Related Claims¶
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- In one small right posterior parietal region, girls showed greater neural variance than boys at equal mean activation — related
- Boys and girls show no gender difference in overall early math achievement on the TEMA-3 — related
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- Math ability predicts neural maturity in the same brain regions for boys and girls, with no gender-by-ability interaction — related
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