Neural Correlates of Math Gains Vary Depending on Parental Socioeconomic Status (SES)
Autor: | Özlem Ece Demir-Lira, Jérôme Prado, James R. Booth |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
longitudinal
education Posterior parietal cortex Left inferior frontal gyrus behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology socioeconomic status 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine children medicine Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Socioeconomic status General Psychology Original Research Neural correlates of consciousness medicine.diagnostic_test 05 social sciences fMRI arithmetic Right superior subtraction Functional magnetic resonance imaging 030217 neurology & neurosurgery psychological phenomena and processes |
Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00892 |
Popis: | We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neural predictors of math development, and asked whether these predictors vary as a function of parental socioeconomic status (SES) in children ranging in age from 8 to 13 years. We independently localized brain regions subserving verbal versus spatial processing in order to characterize relations between activation in these regions during an arithmetic task and long-term change in math skill (up to 3 years). Neural predictors of math gains encompassed brain regions subserving both verbal and spatial processing, but the relation between relative reliance on these regions and math skill growth varied depending on parental SES. Activity in an area of the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) identified by the verbal localizer was related to greater growth in math skill at the higher end of the SES continuum, but lesser improvements at the lower end. Activity in an area of the right superior parietal cortex identified by the spatial localizer was related to greater growth in math skill at the lower end of the SES continuum, but lesser improvements at the higher end. Results highlight early neural mechanisms as possible neuromarkers of long-term arithmetic learning and suggest that neural predictors of math gains vary with parental SES. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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