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Neuroscience Letters
Volume 417, Issue 2, 1 May 2007, Pages 181-186

A combined event-related potential and neuropsychological

investigation of developmental dyscalculia
Fruzsina Soltsz a, Dnes Szcs a, b , Judit Dkny c, Attila Mrkus d, Valria Cspe b

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Abstract
Adolescents with developmental dyscalculia (DD) but no other impairments were examined
with neuropsychological tests and with event-related brain potentials (ERPs). A matched

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control group and an adult control group were tested as well. Behavioural and ERP markers
of the magnitude representation were examined in a task where subjects decided whether
visually presented HinduArabic digits were smaller or larger than 5. There was a normal
behavioural numerical distance effect (better performance for digits closer to the reference
number than for digits further away from it) in DD. This suggests that semantic magnitude
relations depend on a phenomenologically (nearly) normal magnitude representation in DD,
at least in the range of single-digit numbers. However, minor discrepancies between DD
subjects and controls suggest that the perception of the magnitude of single digits may be
slightly impaired in DD. Early ERP distance effects were similar in DD and in control
subjects. In contrast, between 400 and 440 ms there was a focused right-parietal ERP
distance effect in controls, but not in DD. This suggests that early, more automatic
processing of digits was similar in both groups, and between-group processing differences
arose later, during more complex controlled processing. This view is supported by signs of
decelerated executive functioning in developmental dyscalculia. Further, DD subjects did not
differ from controls in general mental rotation and in body parts knowledge, but were
markedly impaired in mental finger rotation, finger knowledge, and tactile performance.

Keywords
Developmental dyscalculia; Magnitude representation; Distance effect; Executive functions;
Finger representation; Event-related potentials

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