Abstract
Premature birth is associated with a high risk of damage in the parietal cortex, a key area for numerical and non-numerical magnitude perception and mathematical reasoning. Children born preterm have higher rates of learning difficulties for school mathematics. In this study, we investigated how preterm newborns (born at 28-34 weeks of gestation age) and full-term newborns respond to visual numerosity after habituation to auditory stimuli of different numerosities. The results show that the two groups have a similar preferential looking response to visual numerosity, both preferring the incongruent set after crossmodal habituation. These results suggest that the numerosity system is resistant to prematurity.
Lingua originale | English |
---|---|
pagine (da-a) | N/A-N/A |
Rivista | Multisensory research |
Volume | 34 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2021 |
Keywords
- Crossmodal perception
- Neonatal cognition
- Preterm
- Numerical cognition
- Numerosity perception
- Newborns