Event-related potentials for simple arithmetic in Arabic digits and Chinese number words: a study of the mental representation of arithmetic facts through notation and operation effects

Zhou, Xinlin; Chen, Chuansheng; Qiao, Sibing; Chen, Lan; Lü, Na; Dong, Qi

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2009.09.024

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“…The dissociation between subtraction and multiplication found in the current study is consistent with the dissociation of arithmetic operations found in the right parietal cortex in previous neuroimaing studies (Lee, 2000;Ischebeck et al, 2006;Kazui, Kitagaki, & Mori, 2000;Prado et al, in press;Zhou et al, 2007Zhou et al, , 2009). For example, Zhou et al (2007) found that addition problems typically elicited more activation in the right inferior and superior parietal cortex than multiplication.…”

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“…Prado et al (in press) found that subtraction elicited greater activity than did multiplication in an area within the right IPS region that was defined by a numerosity comparison task. An event-related potentials study showed that, in comparison with multiplication, addition elicited smaller late positive potentials at the right posterior electrodes (Zhou et al, 2009). The smaller late positive potentials have been linked to greater visuospatial processing in previous ERP studies (e.g., Heil & Rolke, 2002;Milivojevic et al, 2003;Núñez-Peña et al, 2005;Yoshino et al, 2000).…”

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Dissociation of subtraction and multiplication in the right parietal cortex: Evidence from intraoperative cortical electrostimulation

Chen

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Neuropsychologia

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a b s t r a c tPrevious research has consistently shown that the left parietal cortex is critical for numerical processing, but the role of the right parietal lobe has been much less clear. This study used the intraoperative cortical electrical stimulation approach to investigate neural dissociation in the right parietal cortex for subtraction and multiplication. Results showed that multiplication (as well as picture naming) was not affected by the cortical electrical stimulation on all the targeted sites of the right parietal cortex as well as those of the right temporal cortex. In contrast, stimulation at three right parietal sites (two sites in the right inferior parietal lobule and one in the right angular gyrus) impaired performance on simple subtraction problems. This study provided the first evidence from an intraoperative cortical electrical stimulation study to show the dissociation of arithmetic operations in the right parietal cortex. This dissociation between subtraction and multiplication suggests that the right parietal cortex plays a more significant role in quantity processing (subtraction) than in verbal processing (multiplication) in numerical processing.

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Dissociation of subtraction and multiplication in the right parietal cortex: Evidence from intraoperative cortical electrostimulation

Chen

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Neuropsychologia

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“…Only a few ERP studies investigated differences between arithmetic operation types with respect to sensory-motor concepts, and found evidence for stronger involvement of visual-spatial processes in addition and for verbal processes in multiplication in early time windows of arithmetic fact and rule retrieval (Zhou et al, 2006, 2009). To our knowledge, there is no evidence from EEG/MEG studies using source estimation that could shed light on the time-course of activation in sensory-motor systems during arithmetic fact retrieval.…”

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The Body of Evidence: What Can Neuroscience Tell Us about Embodied Semantics?

Hauk¹,

Tschentscher²

2013

Front. Psychology

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Semantic knowledge is based on the way we perceive and interact with the world. However, the jury is still out on the question: to what degree are neuronal systems that subserve acquisition of semantic knowledge, such as sensory-motor networks, involved in its representation and processing? We will begin with a critical evaluation of the main behavioral and neuroimaging methods with respect to their capability to define the functional roles of specific brain areas. Any behavioral or neuroscientific measure is a conflation of representations and processes. Hence, a combination of behavioral and neurophysiological interactions as well as time-course information is required to define the functional roles of brain areas. This will guide our review of the empirical literature. Most research in this area has been done on semantics of concrete words, where clear theoretical frameworks for an involvement of sensory-motor systems in semantics exist. Most of this evidence still stems from correlational studies that are ambiguous with respect to the behavioral relevance of effects. Evidence for causal effects of sensory-motor systems on semantic processes is still scarce but evolving. Relatively few neuroscientific studies so far have investigated the embodiment of abstract semantics for words, numbers, and arithmetic facts. Here, some correlational evidence exists, but data on causality are mostly absent. We conclude that neuroimaging data, just as behavioral data, have so far not disentangled the fundamental link between process and representation. Future studies should therefore put more emphasis on the effects of task and context on semantic processing. Strong conclusions can only be drawn from a combination of methods that provide time-course information, determine the connectivity among poly- or amodal and sensory-motor areas, link behavioral with neuroimaging measures, and allow causal inferences. We will conclude with suggestions on how this could be accomplished in future research.

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“…While there are a few studies investigating ERP indices of arithmetic processing (e.g., Núñez‐Peña, Cortiñas, & Escera, ; Núñez‐Peña, Honrubia‐Serrano, & Escera, ; Pauli, Lutzenberger, Birbaumer, Rickard, & Bourne, ; Pauli et al., ; Zhou et al., , ), individual differences in mathematical skills reflected in event‐related brain potentials have been seldom explored. The only exception is (as far as we know) Núñez‐Peña, Gracia‐Bafalluy, and Tubau's () investigation, in which they compared brain potentials recorded in individuals with high and low math skill engaged in arithmetic tasks involving small (e.g., 3 + 4), medium (e.g., 7 + 8) and large numerical sets (e.g., 16 + 29).…”

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Electrophysiological markers of poor versus superior math abilities in healthy individuals

Proverbio

Carminati

2019

Eur J of Neuroscience

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Interindividual differences in the numerical ability of healthy adults have been previously demonstrated, mainly with tasks involving mental number line or size representation. However, electrophysiological correlates of superior versus poor arithmetic ability (in the healthy population) have been scarcely investigated. We correlated electric potentials with math performance in 13 skilled and 13 poor calculators selected from a sample of 41 graduate students on the basis of their poor or superior math abilities assessed through a timed test. EEG was recorded from 128 channels while participants solved 352 arithmetical operations (additions, subtractions, multiplications, divisions) and decided whether the provided solution was correct or incorrect. Overall skilled individuals correctly solved a higher number of operations than poor calculators and had faster response times. Consistently, the latency of fronto‐central P300 component of event‐related potentials (ERPs) peaked earlier in the skilled than poor group. The P300 was larger in amplitude to correct than incorrect solutions, but just in the skilled group, with a tendency found in poor calculators. Spearman's ρ correlation coefficient analyses showed that the larger P300 response was to correct arithmetic solutions, the better the performance; conversely, the larger the P300 amplitude was to incorrect solutions, the worse the performance. The results suggest that poor calculators had a less clear representation of arithmetic solutions and difficulty in quickly accessing it. This study provides a standard method for directly investigating math abilities throughout ERP recordings that could be useful for assessing acalculia/dyscalculia in the clinical population (children, elderly, brain‐damaged patients).

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Event-related potentials for simple arithmetic in Arabic digits and Chinese number words: a study of the mental representation of arithmetic facts through notation and operation effects

Cited by 13 publications

References 47 publications

Dissociation of subtraction and multiplication in the right parietal cortex: Evidence from intraoperative cortical electrostimulation

Dissociation of subtraction and multiplication in the right parietal cortex: Evidence from intraoperative cortical electrostimulation

The Body of Evidence: What Can Neuroscience Tell Us about Embodied Semantics?

Electrophysiological markers of poor versus superior math abilities in healthy individuals

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