Mental abacus training affects high-level executive functions: Comparison of activation of the frontal pole

The role of executive function training in supporting child development has been increasingly studied. Executive is largely related to the prefrontal cortex. anterior portion cortex, which area 10 on Brodmann map, essential for emergence higher-order functions. Accumulating evidence indicates that mental abacus training, closely mathematics education, activates Based these findings, it can be hypothesized valuable more advanced Therefore, this study analyzed activation children’s brains with a focus frontal pole (Brodmann 10). results illustrated task strongly activated brain than piano task, marshmallow test, or letter–number sequencing tasks. Thus, was suggested higher-level functions (i.e., pole).