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Numerical Abilities in Children With Congenital Hemiplegia: An Investigation of the Role of Finger Use in Number Processing
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Thevenot, Catherine
Castel, Caroline
Danjon, Juliette
Renaud, Olivier
Ballaz, Cécile
Baggioni, Laetitia
Fluss, Joel Victor
Published in Developmental Neuropsychology. 2014, vol. 39, no. 2, p. 88-100
Abstract In this study, we assessed basic and more complex non-symbolic and symbolic numerical task abilities in children with hemiplegia and obtained a detailed picture of their strengths and weaknesses in the numerical domain. Those children, who experience difficulties in finger gnosia and spontaneous use of fingers in counting, exhibit difficulties in finger pattern recognition and symbolic numerical tasks. However, their non-symbolic numerical abilities and arithmetic skills are preserved. These original results are discussed in light of the "manumerical cognition" hypothesis, which postulates that the use of fingers in numerical activities during childhood shapes our comprehension of numbers.
Keywords Agnosia/diagnosis/etiology — Analysis of Variance — Case-Control Studies — Child — Cognition/physiology — Cognition Disorders/diagnosis/etiology — Comprehension — Female — Fingers — Hemiplegia/congenital — Humans — Male — Mathematics — Rehabilitation Centers — Severity of Illness Index — Socioeconomic Factors
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PMID: 24571928
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Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de pédiatrie
Research groups Psychologie du développement cognitif (DeCoPsy)
Méthodologie et analyse des données (MAD)
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(ISO format) 		THEVENOT, Catherine et al. Numerical Abilities in Children With Congenital Hemiplegia: An Investigation of the Role of Finger Use in Number Processing. In: Developmental Neuropsychology, 2014, vol. 39, n° 2, p. 88-100. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:55073

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