Dyscalculia: News from the web:

It is always wonderful when new research is done into Dyscalculia. Supported by a federal grant from the ministry of education, we have a new study available this week. Spoiler alert, here is the conclusion (but please take time to read the whole article):

We conclude that dyscalculic children show large individual differences in brain activation patterns. Nonetheless, the majority of dyscalculic children can be differentiated from controls employing brain activation patterns when appropriate methods are used.

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Yes it seems that our mathematical capabilities are what sets us apart from the animal kingdom. Researchers now have established that our numbersense at 6 months pretty much predicts how well we will score on tests after a number of years.

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

This is a nice piece of research that will need some more follow up. In research, participants in a study are often placed in an environment that eliminates all outside distractions. This is how they have measured the brain activity in children with dyscalculia. Now researchers are curious about what other situations trigger that part of the brain in regular life. Well it turns out, but needs lots of confirmation, that the pieces of the brain that are affected with dyscalculia also get triggered when people with dyscalculia refer in a conversation to an object with a numerical content.

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