Psychological Development and Education ›› 2013, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 441-448.

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Advances in the Research of Developmental Dyscalculia

ZHAO Hui1, LU Hao2, ZHANG Shu-dong3   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Chengdu Juvenile Delinquents Prison of China, Chengdu 610043;
    3. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2013-07-15 Published:2013-07-15

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Abstract: There have been growing numbers of researches conducted on developmental dyscalculia these years. However, there are still controversies on the mechanism of how dyscalculia developed, and the diagnosis criteria as well. Recent researches have suggested that the main cause of developmental dyscalculia could be a selective deficit in a domain-specific capacity instead of the claim of more domain-general cognitive deficit. The researches on the neural mechanisms of developmental dyscalculia have also shifted from focusing on single brain area to the new approach of investigating the brain functional connectivity between various locations. On the basis of research on the cognitive and neural mechanism of developmental dyscalculia, researchers have tried to apply the theoretic finding into educational practice. And in the future, the new finding towards the mechanism and the intervention effect of developmental dyscalculia is expected from integrated data from behavioral, neural and genetic perspectives.

Key words: Developmental dyscalculia, Cognitive and neural mechanism, Functional connectivity, Intervention

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  • B844.1
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