Individual responses to eight weeks of math training are predicted by pre-training hippocampus and basal ganglia anatomy and connectivity, not parietal areas¶

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q2 i? Brain anatomy and functional connectivity recorded before training predict individual responses to 8 weeks of mathematical training, involving hippocampus and basal ganglia indices but not parietal areas. → Arsalidou 2016

Evidence¶

Arsalidou 2016¶

Arsalidou, M. & Pascual-Leone, J. (2016). Constructivist developmental theory is needed in developmental neuroscience. npj Science of Learning 1, 16016. https://doi.org/10.1038/npjscilearn.2016.16

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The review reports, citing a mathematical-achievement study, this predictive finding. It interprets it as evidence that learning relies on non-content-specific coordinating brain regions, since parietal areas are typically engaged during mathematical problem solving.

"individual responses to 8 weeks of training can be predicted by brain anatomy and functional connectivity measures recorded before training; this is the connectivity and cortical indices of hippocampus and basal ganglia, but not of parietal areas"

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