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Publication Date: 2018
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Developmental Dyscalculia in Adults: Beyond Numerical Magnitude Impairment
De Visscher, Alice; Noël, Marie-Pascale; Pesenti, Mauro; Dormal, Valérie
Journal of Learning Disabilities, v51 n6 p600-611 Nov-Dec 2018
Numerous studies have tried to identify the core deficit of developmental dyscalculia (DD), mainly by assessing a possible deficit of the mental representation of numerical magnitude. Research in healthy adults has shown that numerosity, duration, and space share a partly common system of magnitude processing and representation. However, in DD, numerosity processing has until now received much more attention than the processing of other non-numerical magnitudes. To assess whether or not the processing of non-numerical magnitudes is impaired in DD, the performance of 15 adults with DD and 15 control participants was compared in four categorization tasks using numerosities, lengths, durations, and faces (as non-magnitude-based control stimuli). Results showed that adults with DD were impaired in processing numerosity and duration, while their performance in length and face categorization did not differ from controls' performance. Our findings support the idea of a nonsymbolic magnitude deficit in DD, affecting numerosity and duration processing but not length processing.
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Adults, Numbers, Time, Cognitive Processes, Classification, Intelligence Tests, Arithmetic, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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