Number processing in typical and atypical development

Neural Correlates of Reward Processing in Typical and Atypical Development

Atypically developing children including those born preterm or who have autism spectrum disorder can display difficulties with evaluating rewarding stimuli, which may result from impaired maturation of reward and cognitive control brain regions. During functional magnetic resonance imaging, 58 typically and atypically developing children (6-12 years) participated in a set-shifting task that inc...

What makes counting count? Verbal and visuo-spatial contributions to typical and atypical number development.

Williams Syndrome (WS) is marked by a relative strength in verbal cognition coupled with a serious impairment in non-verbal cognition. A strong deficit in numerical cognition has been anecdotally reported in this disorder; however, its nature has not been systematically investigated. Here, we tested 14 children with WS (mean age=7 years 2 months), 14 typically developing controls individually m...

Speech processing in typical and atypical language development: using nonwords to map the way

Subject relatives in typical and atypical language development

In the present research we aim to determine whether relative clauses are successful in distinguishing Italian-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) from their typically developing peers. Ninetheen preschool-aged children with SLI participated in the study. They were matched to ninetheen typically developing (TD) children on the basis of the age. Children were tested by means...

EEG mu rhythm in typical and atypical development.

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an effective, efficient, and noninvasive method of assessing and recording brain activity. Given the excellent temporal resolution, EEG can be used to examine the neural response related to specific behaviors, states, or external stimuli. An example of this utility is the assessment of the mirror neuron system (MNS) in humans through the examination of the EEG mu...