User menu

Accès à distance ? S'identifier sur le proxy UCLouvain

The inhibition capacities of children with mathematical disabilities.

Primary tabs

download
  • Open access
  • PDF
  • 187.54 K
Censabella, Sandrine Noël, Marie-Pascale [UCL]

Several authors have argued that mathematical disabilities might result from difficulties in inhibiting irrelevant information. The present study addresses this issue by assessing three inhibition functions in 40 ten-year-old children: suppression of irrelevant information from working memory, inhibition of prepotent responses, and interference control. We found no significant differences between children with math disabilities and typically achieving controls, or between children with arithmetic facts disabilities and children with above-average arithmetic facts skills. These findings, along with other empirical evidence and with theoretical considerations, cast doubt on the inhibition deficit hypothesis.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2008
Journal information "Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence" - Vol. 14, no. 1, p. 1-20 (2008)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0929-7049
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL
MESH Subject Aptitude ; Child ; Cognition ; Humans ; Inhibition (Psychology) ; Mathematics ; Memory, Short-Term ; Neuropsychological Tests ; Psychological Theory ; Reaction Time
Links
  1. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (1994)
  2. Anderson M. C., Inhibitory processes in attention, memory, and language, 265 (1994)
  3. Arbuthnott K. D., Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition, 14, 3 (1995)
  4. Arbuthnott Katherine, Campbell Jamie I. D., Cognitive inhibition in selection and sequential retrieval, 10.3758/bf03198548
  5. Baddeley Alan, Exploring the Central Executive, 10.1080/027249896392784
  6. Baddeley A. D., Human memory: Theory and practice (1997)
  7. Barrouillet Pierre, Fayol Michel, Lathulière Eric, Selecting between Competitors in Multiplication Tasks: An Explanation of the Errors Produced by Adolescents with Learning Difficulties, 10.1080/016502597384857
  8. Bjorklund David F, Harnishfeger Katherine Kipp, The resources construct in cognitive development: Diverse sources of evidence and a theory of inefficient inhibition, 10.1016/0273-2297(90)90004-n
  9. Bull Rebecca, Scerif Gaia, Executive Functioning as a Predictor of Children's Mathematics Ability: Inhibition, Switching, and Working Memory, 10.1207/s15326942dn1903_3
  10. Butterworth B., Handbook of mathematical cognition, 455 (2005)
  11. Campbell Jamie I. D., Network interference and mental multiplication., 10.1037/0278-7393.13.1.109
  12. Campbell Jamie I. D., Production, verification, and priming of multiplication facts, 10.3758/bf03197037
  13. Campbell Jamie I. D., Conditions of error priming in number-fact retrieval, 10.3758/bf03197119
  14. Campbell J. I. D., Mathematical Cognition, 1, 121 (1995)
  15. Campbell Jamie I.D., Arbuthnott Katherine D., Inhibitory Processes in Sequential Retrieval: Evidence from Variable-Lag Repetition Priming, 10.1006/brcg.1996.0005
  16. Campbell Jamie I. D., Clark James M., Time course of error priming in number-fact retrieval: Evidence for excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms., 10.1037/0278-7393.15.5.920
  17. Campbell Jamie I. D., Tarling Derek P. M., Retrieval processes in arithmetic production and verification, 10.3758/bf03200878
  18. Censabella S., Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition, 22, 635 (2004)
  19. Censabella Sandrine, Noël Marie-Pascale, The Inhibition of Exogenous Distracting Information in Children with Learning Disabilities, 10.1177/00222194050380050301
  20. Christ Shawn E., White Desiree A., Mandernach Tammy, Keys Beth A., Inhibitory Control Across the Life Span, 10.1207/s15326942dn2003_7
  21. Daneman Meredyth, Carpenter Patricia A., Individual differences in working memory and reading, 10.1016/s0022-5371(80)90312-6
  22. Cornoldi Rossana De Beni Paola Palladino Francesca Pazzaglia Cesare, Increases in Intrusion Errors and Working Memory Deficit of Poor Comprehenders, 10.1080/027249898391648
  23. Dempster Frank N., Corkill Alice J., Individual differences in susceptibility to interference and general cognitive ability, 10.1016/s0001-6918(99)00013-x
  24. Eriksen Barbara A., Eriksen Charles W., Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task, 10.3758/bf03203267
  25. Fisher Dennis F., Monty Richard A., Glucksberg Sam, Visual Confusion Matrices: Fact or Artifact?, 10.1080/00223980.1969.10543077
  26. Fox Elaine, Negative priming from ignored distractors in visual selection: A review, 10.3758/bf03210958
  27. Friedman Naomi P., Miyake Akira, The Relations Among Inhibition and Interference Control Functions: A Latent-Variable Analysis., 10.1037/0096-3445.133.1.101
  28. Geary David C., Mathematical disabilities: Cognitive, neuropsychological, and genetic components., 10.1037/0033-2909.114.2.345
  29. Geary D. C., Children's mathematical development (1994)
  30. Geary David C., Brown Sam C., Samaranayake V. A., Cognitive addition: A short longitudinal study of strategy choice and speed-of-processing differences in normal and mathematically disabled children., 10.1037/0012-1649.27.5.787
  31. Geary David C., Hamson Carmen O., Hoard Mary K., Numerical and Arithmetical Cognition: A Longitudinal Study of Process and Concept Deficits in Children with Learning Disability, 10.1006/jecp.2000.2561
  32. Geary David C, Hoard Mary K, Byrd-Craven Jennifer, Catherine DeSoto M, Strategy choices in simple and complex addition: Contributions of working memory and counting knowledge for children with mathematical disability, 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.03.002
  33. Gernsbacher Morton Ann, Group differences in suppression skill, 10.1080/13825589708256646
  34. Gernsbacher Morton A., Faust Mark E., The mechanism of suppression: A component of general comprehension skill., 10.1037/0278-7393.17.2.245
  35. Gernsbacher Morton A., Varner Kathleen R., Faust Mark E., Investigating differences in general comprehension skill., 10.1037/0278-7393.16.3.430
  36. Harnishfeger Katherine Kipp, The development of cognitive inhibition, Interference and Inhibition in Cognition (1995) ISBN:9780122089305 p.175-204, 10.1016/b978-012208930-5/50007-6
  37. Hasher L., The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory, 22, 193 (1988)
  38. Hasher L., Attention and performance xvii. Cognitive regulation of performance: Interaction of theory and application, 653 (1999)
  39. Hitch Graham J., McAuley Ellika, Working memory in children with specific arithmetical learning difficulties, 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1991.tb02406.x
  40. Howell D. C., Méthodes statistiques en sciences humaines (1998)
  41. Koontz Kristine L., Identifying Simple Numerical Stimuli: Processing Inefficiencies Exhibited by Arithmetic Learning Disabled Children, 10.1080/135467996387525
  42. Koshmider John W., Ashcraft Mark H., The development of children's mental multiplication skills, 10.1016/0022-0965(91)90077-6
  43. Landerl Karin, Bevan Anna, Butterworth Brian, Developmental dyscalculia and basic numerical capacities: a study of 8–9-year-old students, 10.1016/j.cognition.2003.11.004
  44. Lobrot M., Batterie d'épreuves pour mesurer la lecture et l'orthographe: Manuel (1980)
  45. Logan G. D., Inhibitory processes in attention, memory, and language, 189 (1994)
  46. May Cynthia P., Kane Michael J., Hasher Lynn, Determinants of negative priming., 10.1037/0033-2909.118.1.35
  47. International classification of diseases and health related problems (1995)
  48. Pasolunghi Maria Chiara, Cornoldi Cesare, De Liberto Stephanie, Working memory and intrusions of irrelevant information in a group of specific poor problem solvers, 10.3758/bf03198531
  49. Passolunghi M.Chiara, Siegel Linda S., Short-Term Memory, Working Memory, and Inhibitory Control in Children with Difficulties in Arithmetic Problem Solving, 10.1006/jecp.2000.2626
  50. Perret P., Revue de Neuropsychologie, 13, 347 (2003)
  51. Phenix Thomas L., Campbell Jamie I. D., Effects of multiplication practice on product verification: Integrated structures model or retrieval-induced forgetting?, 10.3758/bf03196862
  52. Piérart B., Le Langage et l'Homme, 39, 87 (2004)
  53. Rourke Byron P., Arithmetic Disabilities, Specific and Otherwise : A Neuropsychological Perspective, 10.1177/002221949302600402
  54. Rousselle L., Cognition
  55. Sattler J. M., Assessment of children's intelligence and special abilities (1982)
  56. Shilling V.M, Chetwynd A, Rabbitt P.M.A, Individual inconsistency across measures of inhibition: an investigation of the construct validity of inhibition in older adults, 10.1016/s0028-3932(01)00157-9
  57. Siegler R. S., Intelligences et développement de l'enfant: Variation, evolution, modalités (2000)
  58. Simonart G., Echelle d'Apprentissages Scolaires Primaires: Manuel (1998)
  59. Stazyk Edmund H., Ashcraft Mark H., Hamann Mary S., A network approach to mental multiplication., 10.1037/0278-7393.8.4.320
  60. van der Sluis Sophie, de Jong Peter F, Leij Aryan van der, Inhibition and shifting in children with learning deficits in arithmetic and reading, 10.1016/j.jecp.2003.12.002
  61. Wechsler D., Echelle d'intelligence de Wechsler pour enfants: Manuel (1996)
Bibliographic reference Censabella, Sandrine ; Noël, Marie-Pascale. The inhibition capacities of children with mathematical disabilities.. In: Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence, Vol. 14, no. 1, p. 1-20 (2008)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/11232