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  • Developmental Psychology
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  • Dyslexia primarily impacts language processing, affecting reading and spelling.
  • Children with dyslexia often exhibit mathematical difficulties, but their neural underpinnings are less understood.
  • Investigating the brain's white matter structure is crucial for understanding these mathematical challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the structural brain correlates of mathematical difficulties in children with dyslexia.
  • To compare verbal and nonverbal number processing abilities between children with and without dyslexia.
  • To identify associations between white matter integrity and arithmetic performance in dyslexia.

Main Methods:

  • Diffusion tensor imaging (3T MR) and cognitive testing were used.
  • Tract-Based Spatial Statistics analyzed correlations between behavioral and diffusion data.
  • Participants included 16 children with dyslexia and 24 typically developing controls, matched for age, gender, IQ, and handedness.

Main Results:

  • Children with dyslexia performed significantly worse on verbal arithmetic tasks (efficiency, multiplication, division) but not on a nonverbal number line task.
  • Arithmetic efficiency correlated with white matter diffusion measures in widespread areas, including the superior and inferior longitudinal fasciculi, in children with dyslexia.
  • These findings suggest an association between language-based deficits and white matter alterations impacting arithmetic skills.

Conclusions:

  • Poor fact retrieval in dyslexia likely stems from language system deficits, affecting both literacy and numeracy.
  • Widespread white matter differences in children with dyslexia are associated with verbal arithmetic performance.
  • Compensatory mechanisms may be at play in the brains of children with dyslexia to address these challenges.