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  • Intersection of spatial and numerical cognition in the developing brain CEREBRAL CORTEX Aulet, L. S., Kaicher, C. M., Cantlon, J. F. 2025; 35 (6)

    Abstract

    Early mathematical development is thought to depend on visuospatial processing, yet neural evidence for this relationship in young children has been limited. We examined the neural mechanisms supporting numerical and visuospatial processing in 4- to 8-year-old children and adults using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), with three tasks: numerical matching, geometric shape matching, and number line estimation. We found that specialization for numerical and geometric processing in parietal cortex exists by 4-8 years of age, and that children exhibited greater conjunctive activation between numerical and geometric tasks throughout the parietal cortex compared to adults. During the number line task, children's neural activity significantly overlapped with activity from both number and geometric shape matching tasks, whereas adults' activity only overlapped with the number task. These findings provide the first neural evidence that number line estimation relies on both numerical and geometric processing in children, whereas it depends primarily on number-specific processing in adults.

    View details for DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhaf126

    View details for Web of Science ID 001502588900001

    View details for PubMedID 40474499

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  • Multimodal training on L2 Japanese pitch accent: learning outcomes, neural correlates and subjective assessments LANGUAGE AND COGNITION Hirata, Y., Friedman, E., Kaicher, C., Kelly, S. D. 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1017/langcog.2024.24

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  • Is core knowledge a natural subdivision of infant cognition? The Behavioral and brain sciences Kaicher, C. M., Conti, J. J., Dedhe, A. M., Aulet, L. S., Cantlon, J. F. 2024; 47: e133

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    We examine Spelke's core knowledge taxonomy and test its boundaries. We ask whether Spelke's core knowledge is a distinct type of cognition in the sense that the cognitive processes it includes and excludes are biologically and mechanically coherent.

    View details for DOI 10.1017/S0140525X23003229

    View details for PubMedID 38934427

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