What parents can take from this research
Learning arithmetic is accompanied by changing brain activity, but the educational conclusion should remain about learning the skill, not marketing a brain effect.
What the research found
Longitudinal evidence that children’s arithmetic learning is accompanied by changes in hippocampal-neocortical engagement as fact retrieval develops.
Full citation
Shaozheng Qin et al. (2014). Hippocampal-neocortical functional reorganization underlies children’s cognitive development. Nature Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/nn.3788.
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