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Investigating the frontoparietal network in mental calculation in primary school children – An fMRI study

Katrien Mondt¹, Danielle Balériaux², Thierry Metens², Philippe Paquier², Piet Van de Craen¹ & Vincent Denolin²

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1. Department of Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2. Imagerie medicale IRM, Université Libre de Bruxelles - Hôpital Erasme

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Received 19 March 2008 14:07 UTC; Posted 20 March 2008

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• frontoparietal network
• arithmetic
• fMRI
• children

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The frontoparietal network activated during calculation processing is investigated in a pediatric population. Subjects assessed correctness of two and three operand equations. Besides traditional frontoparietal activation, clear activation of sites associated with error processing was observed.

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Mondt, Katrien, Balériaux, Danielle, Metens, Thierry, Paquier, Philippe, Van de Craen, Piet, and Denolin, Vincent. Investigating the frontoparietal network in mental calculation in primary school children – An fMRI study. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1694.1> (2008)

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