Deductive Reasoning and Math Learning Difficulty

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: fMRI

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03059758

69HCL16_0686

Details and patient eligibility

About

Most studies to date that have examined the factors underlying math achievement in children have focused on basic numerical knowledge. Yet, math skills are clearly not limited to basic numerical knowledge and recent behavioral studies suggest a relationship between math and deductive reasoning skills. The goal of this study is to determine the neural mediators of this relationship using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The investigators will ask children from 8 to 14 to complete a standardized math achievement test, and measure their brain activity while they process deductive arguments. The investigators will then correlate brain activity during reasoning to individual math skills to identify the brain regions in which activity during reasoning is modulated by math skill.

Enrollment: 137 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Girl or boy between 8 and 14
• Right-handed
• Affiliated to the French social security
• Whose parents gave informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Neurological disorders
• Psychiatric disorders
• Birth complications requiring admission into neonatal intensive care unit
• Medication affecting central nervous system processing
• Significant hearing impairment
• Uncorrected visual impairment
• Non-native French speaker
• Contraindications for MRI

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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137 participants in 1 patient group

Brain activity during reasoning and measure of math skill

Experimental group

Description:

Brain activity during reasoning and measure of math skill

Treatment:

Other: fMRI