Temporo-frontal activation during phonological processing predicts gains in arithmetic facts in young children

This study suggests that both temporal and frontal cortex activation during phonological processing are important in predicting gains in math tasks that involve the retrieval of facts that are stored as phonological codes in memory. Moreover, these results were specific to younger children, suggesting that phonology is most important in the early stages of math development. When the math task involved subtractions, which relies on quantity representations, phonological processes were not important in driving gains.
Source: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research