Despite the fact that number deficits are as prevalent as literacy deficits, research on basic
numerical skills lags seriously behind the successful studies identifying low-level deficits in …

There is a growing consensus that the neuropsychological underpinnings of developmental
dyscalculia (DD) are a genetically determined disorder of 'number sense', a term denoting …

A long-standing debate concerns whether developmental dyscalculia is characterized by
core deficits in processing nonsymbolic or symbolic numerical information as well as the role …

Claire is an 8-year-old girl in second grade who participated in a remediation study for
dyscalculia that we recently conducted. Despite an average IQ and good motivation and …

Developmental dyscalculia is a learning disability that affects the acquisition of knowledge
about numbers and arithmetic. It is widely assumed that numeracy is rooted on the “number …

Studies on developmental dyscalculia (DD) have tried to identify a basic numerical deficit
that could account for this specific learning disability. The first proposition was that the …

Background: Developmental dyscalculia is a heterogeneous disorder with largely
dissociable performance profiles. Though our current understanding of the neurofunctional …

The present paper provides a critical overview of how adult neuropsychological models
have been applied to the study of the atypical development of numerical cognition …

There are two different conceptions of the innate basis for numerical abilities. On the one
hand, it is claimed that infants possess a 'number module'that enables them to construct …

This issue of Trends in Neuroscience in Education offers some fresh perspectives on
developmental dyscalculia. Here we present an overview of different theoretical approaches …