The inhibition capacities of children with mathematical disabilities.
Child Neuropsychol
; 14(1): 1-20, 2008 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
Several authors have argued that mathematical disabilities might result from difficulties in inhibiting irrelevant information. The present study addresses this issue by assessing three inhibition functions in 40 ten-year-old children suppression of irrelevant information from working memory, inhibition of prepotent responses, and interference control. We found no significant differences between children with math disabilities and typically achieving controls, or between children with arithmetic facts disabilities and children with above-average arithmetic facts skills. These findings, along with other empirical evidence and with theoretical considerations, cast doubt on the inhibition deficit hypothesis.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Aptidão
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Cognição
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Inibição Psicológica
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Matemática
Limite:
Child
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2008
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Article