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Temporal abnormalities in children with developmental dyscalculia.
Davide MartinoGaetano RappoAndrea PavanCarmelo M. VicarioAnnamaria Pepisubject
Malemedicine.medical_specialtyPsychometricsPsychometricsDevelopmental DisabilitiesStatistics as TopicDyscalculiaAudiologyNeuropsychological TestsDevelopmental psychologyPerceptual DisordersSettore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'EducazioneDevelopmental DyscalculiaDevelopmental and Educational PsychologymedicineReaction TimeHumansDyscalculia/complications Neuropsychological TestsPrefrontal cortexChildTime processingAnalysis of VarianceNeuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyTemporal IntegrationCase-Control StudiesAcalculiaDevelopmental DyscalculiaTime PerceptionFemaleAnalysis of variancemedicine.symptomAbnormalityPsychologyAnalysis of Variance; Case-Control Studies; Child; Developmental Disabilities; Dyscalculia; Female; Humans; Male; Neuropsychological Tests; Perceptual Disorders; Psychometrics; Reaction Time; Statistics as Topic; Time Perception; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology; Developmental and Educational Psychologydescription
Recent imaging studies have associated Developmental dyscalculia (DD) to structural and functional alterations corresponding Parietal and the Prefrontal cortex (PFC). Since these areas were shown also to be involved in timing abilities, we hypothesized that time processing is abnormal in DD. We compared time processing abilities between 10 children with pure DD (8 years old) and 11 age-matched healthy children. Results show that the DD group underestimated duration of a sub-second scale when asked to perform a time comparison task. The timing abnormality observed in our DD participants is consistent with evidence of a shared fronto-parietal neural network for representing time and quantity. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 | Developmental neuropsychology |