Group Differences in Single-Digit Multiplication Reflected by Event-Related Potentials

• In Event: Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: Imaging Studies in Educational Neuroscience

Abstract

This paper presents a small part of a larger interdisciplinary study that investigates brain activity (using Event-Related brain Potentials – ERP – methodology) of mathematically talented adolescents when solving mathematical problems of different types. Our aim was to investigate the differences in duration and form of activation among four ability groups of adolescents according to a combination of general giftedness and excellence in mathematics. In the study presented herein ERPs were used to compare the process of brain activation when students perform single-digit multiplication tasks.

Authors

• Mark Leikin, University of Haifa

• Ilana Waisman, University of Haifa

• Shelley Shaul, University of Haifa

• Roza Leikin, University of Haifa