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They examined if an intervention on reading would also impact the math capabilities.
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Training-related Brain activity change causing improvements
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Researchers have shown that children with Developmental Dyscalculia got better at solving multiplication problems and that brain activation changed after a two-week training using an interactive learning platform. Importantly, the different brain activation changes in children with Developmental Dyscalculia observed in our study once again confirms that we need to study this population as information about this disorder cannot simply be inferred from studies with typical developing children.
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Visual perception is key
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Visual perception has been found to be a critical factor for reading comprehension and arithmetic computation in separate lines of research with different measures of visual form perception. The current study of 1099 Chinese elementary school students investigated whether the same visual form perception (assessed by a geometric figure matching task) underlies both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation. The results showed that visual form perception had close relations with both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation, even after controlling for age, gender, and cognitive factors such as processing speed, attention, working memory, visuo-spatial processing, and general intelligence.
Cui J, Zhang Y, Wan S, Chen C, Zeng J, Zhou X. Visual form perception is fundamental for both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation. Cognition. 2019;189:141-154. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.014
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Dyscalculia actually Dyslexia in disguise?
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According to some researchers at the University of Upsala it is. They have found that the brain of the people with Dyscalculia and Dyslexia basically work in the same manner and so they claim that Dyscalculia is not a learning disability in itself but a version of Dyslexia.
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Higher IQ when you live in the green?
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Remarkable study here, where they have figured out that children raised in greener area’s score higher on IQ.
A 3% increase in the greenness of their neighbourhood raised their IQ score by an average of 2.6 points. The effect was similar in richer and poorer neighborhoods.
Unfortunately they have not yet found out what causes this but they state: “The cause is uncertain but may be linked to lower stress levels, more play and social contact or a quieter environment.”
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