I’ve been endlessly scoring digit-symbol coding protocols (fun…), a subtest of the WAIS-IV, for the past few weeks at my new neuropsych externship so the following article seems particularly relevant. In a recent study by Cantlon and colleagues published in the latest Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, they decided to measure the brain activity of 6-7 year-old children during numerical comparison tasks using fMRI
An example of a numerical comparsion task:
…participants were required to compare a single digit Arabic number presented on the center square with the standard, 5. Participants were asked to reach and touch one of three squares on the screen with their index finger while their hand movement trajectories were recorded: the left square for 1–4, the center for 5, and the right for 6–9 (Song & Nakayama, 2007).
The authors found that 6- and 7-year-old children…[find out at TheQuantumLobeChronicles.blogspot.com]
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