Journal
JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION
Volume 116, Issue 12, Pages 1689-1700Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-009-0307-9
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Neuroimaging; Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); Mathematics; School setting
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- Federal Ministry of Education and Research [01GJ0617 1518/ 7]
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This study investigated whether near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) can be used to measure the processing of arithmetic problems in school children. Another aim was to assess whether distinct formats of such problems would lead to different neural processing. Two large samples of school children from different age groups were examined while calculating or reading arithmetic problems that were either presented in numeric or in word format. As expected, we found that, compared to reading, calculation resulted in greater average oxygenation in parietal and posterior frontal regions. Neither format nor age had a significant effect on brain oxygenation. We were able to demonstrate that NIRS measurements can readily be conducted with children and in school settings, which is an indication for the ecological validity of this measurement technique.
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