NCT06658392

Domain-general and Domain-specific Contributions to the Development of Numerical Cognition

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 58 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier St Anne · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Exploring the non-symbolic and symbolic arithmetic competencies in two groups of children (5-, and 7-year-olds). Additionally, we explored the relationship with domain-general factors such as inhibition and attention. Recorded fMRI.

Detailed description

Using T2\*-weighted eip imaging, we measured BOLD response in two cohorts of healthy children while they were doing different cognitive tasks in the scanner. These tasks included solving non-symbolic (i.e. sets of elements) and symbolic (i.e. Arabic digits) addition and subtraction problems, a color control task, an attentional task measuring different facets of spatial attention, and a task measuring inhibition. We also recorded a high-resolution anatomical scan of the brain.

Conditions

• No Condition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	cognitive tasks	no intervention in a medical sense, only observing changes of BOLD signal during different experimental conditions in cognitive tasks (arithmetic, attention, inhibition)

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-30
• Primary completion: 2024-09-27
• Completion: 2024-09-27
• First posted: 2024-10-26
• Last updated: 2024-10-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France