0 a condition affecting the brain that makes it difficult for someone to do calculations
For example, in procedural dyscalculia, despite pervasive impairment in arithmetical procedures, knowledge of numerical facts can have 95% accuracy.
Children with spina bifida are more likely than their typically developing peers to have dyscalculia.
Neuroimaging studies of mathematical learning disabilities are still rare but dyscalculia is an area of increasing interest for neuroscience researchers.
Indeed, the few studies carried out on children with dyscalculia only point to a brain level impairment of the number sense system.
Scientists have yet to understand the causes of dyscalculia.
On the other hand, people with dyscalculia have difficulty automatically identifying numbers with magnitudes, but not letters and with phonemes.
Brain imaging in children exhibiting symptoms of dyscalculia show less gray matter or less activation in the intraparietal regions stimulated normally during mathematical tasks.
Dyscalculia can result in children falling significantly behind in school, regardless of having normal intelligence levels.
