We report here the case of a patient (BB), suffering from a precocious evolving dementia
with impaired arithmetic performance, who showed specific and theoretical pertinent …

The difficulty in memorizing arithmetic facts is a general and persistent hallmark of math
learning disabilities. It has recently been suggested that hypersensitivity to interference …

Despite the high incidence of numerical deficits in neurological patients, little attention has
been paid to the development of diagnostic tools. In fact, most of the published reports on …

Researchers, including psychologists and mathematics educators, and lay people, including
school teachers and administrators, hold conflicting beliefs about the nature of arithmetic …

This event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study reports on the impact
of semantic feature analysis (SFA) therapy on the neural substrate sustaining the recovery …

The opposition between declarative and procedural knowledge is used to account for the
solution by more or less expert and novice arithmeticians of simple additions and …

Objective. To suggest a cerebral map of elementary mathematical thinking, and integrate the
most relevant findings from neuropsychology with those from cerebral imaging techniques …

The proponents of drill (eg, Ashcraft, 1985; Thorndike, 1922) and the proponents of
meaningful learning (eg, Baroody, 1985; Brownell, 1935) have long debated how single …

It has been shown repeatedly that simple mental calculation depends not only on long-term
memory (LTM) representations but also on working memory (WM) resources. The study …

Event‐related potentials were recorded with 61 electrodes from 16 students who verified
either the correctness of single‐digit multiplication problems or the semantic congruency of …