Relations between balancing and arithmetic skills in children

Autor/inn/en	Lonnemann, Jan; Linkersdörfer, Janosch; Heselhaus, Vera; Hasselhorn, Marcus; Lindberg, Sven
Titel	Relations between balancing and arithmetic skills in children - evidence of cerebellar involvement?
Quelle	In: Journal of neurolinguistics, 24 (2011) 5, S. 592-601 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0911-6044
DOI	10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.02.005
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Korrelation; Motorik; Grundschule; Schüler; Gehirn; Arithmetik; Mathematische Kompetenz; Rechnen; Deutschland
Abstract	Reading performance has been shown to be linked with balancing skills, possibly indicating an involvement of the cerebellum in reading-related tasks. In our study, we examined whether a similar connection can be detected for arithmetic performance. We assessed basic arithmetic skills of 8-10-year-old children (n = 53) and asked them to balance on the left or right foot, with eyes open or closed. Results revealed substantial correlations between performance in arithmetic tasks and in the balancing tasks with closed eyes even when controlling for attentional and reasoning capabilities. These findings are interpreted in terms of a cerebellar involvement in arithmetic tasks. We propose that verbally mediated arithmetic tasks like multiplication might be related to cerebellar functions in different ways than those arithmetic tasks that require elaboration strategies and quantity manipulations, such as subtraction. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2012/3