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Multimedia Battery for Assessment of Cognitive and Basic Skills in Mathematics (BM-PROMA)

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Are poor mathematics skills associated with visual deficits in temporal processing?

H Sigmundsson¹, S K Anholt, J B Talcott

¹Research Group for Learning and Skill Development, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway. hermundurs@svt.ntnu.no

Neuroscience Letters

|December 10, 2009

Summary

Children with math difficulties show reduced sensitivity to visual motion, similar to dyslexia. This suggests a shared visual processing deficit may underlie these common developmental disorders.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Science

Background:

Developmental learning disabilities like dyslexia and dyscalculia frequently co-occur in children.
These co-occurring disorders suggest shared underlying cognitive and neurophysiological mechanisms.
Reduced sensitivity to visual motion has been linked to developmental disorders with a strong heritable component.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if children with poor mathematics skills exhibit deficits in visual motion sensitivity.
To determine if visual motion processing deficits are associated with mathematics difficulties.

Main Methods:

Psychophysical thresholds for visual coherent motion were measured in two groups of children.
A control task (coherent form) was used to compare visual processing.
Children were grouped based on their performance on a mathematics achievement test.

Main Results:

Children in the lowest 10% for math skills demonstrated reduced sensitivity to coherent motion compared to age-matched controls.
Thresholds for the coherent form control task were statistically equivalent between groups.
This indicates a specific deficit in visual motion processing, not general visual impairment.

Conclusions:

Children with mathematics difficulties exhibit a visual processing deficit pattern similar to other developmental disorders.
Reduced sensitivity to temporally defined visual stimuli, like coherent motion, may be a common processing deficit.
This finding supports the hypothesis of shared underlying mechanisms across co-occurring developmental disorders.