Brain mechanisms of quantity are similar in 5-year-old children and adults

AUTOR(ES)

Temple, Elise

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Both 5-year-old children and adults determine the quantity of a number by the use of a similar parietal lobe mechanism. Event related potentials indicate that input from Arabic digits and from dot patterns reach areas involved in determining quantity about 200 ms after input. However, voluntary key presses indicating the relation of the input to the quantity five take almost three times as long in children. The ability to trace the networks of brain areas involved in the learning of school subjects should aid in the design and testing of educational methods.

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