Math & Dyscalculia

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Abreu‐Mendoza, R. A., Pincus, M., Chamorro, Y., Jolles, D., Matute, E., & Rosenberg‐Lee, M. (2022). Parietal and hippocampal hyper‐connectivity is associated with low math achievement in adolescence–A preliminary study. Developmental Science, 25(3), e13187. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13187

Alrefaei, M. M. (2024). Number sense deficits in children with developmental dyscalculia, dyslexia, co-occurring disorder and their typically developing peers. Applied Neuropsychology: Child, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2024.2364729

Amalric, M., & Cantlon, J. F. (2022). Common neural functions during children's learning from naturalistic and controlled mathematics paradigms. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(7), 1164-1182. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01848

Ashkenazi, S., Tikochinski, R., & Ganor-Stern, D. (2022). Neural correlates of numerical estimation: The role of strategy use. Brain Sciences, 12(3), 357. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030357

Ayyıldız, N., Beyer, F., Üstün, S., Kale, E. H., Mançe Çalışır, Ö., Uran, P., ... & Çiçek, M. (2023). Changes in the superior longitudinal fasciculus and anterior thalamic radiation in the left brain are associated with developmental dyscalculia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1147352. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1147352

Ayyıldız, N., Beyer, F., Üstün, S., Kale, E. H., Mançe Çalışır, Ö., Uran, P., ... & Çiçek, M. (2021). Structural brain connectivity in children with developmental dyscalculia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1147352

Bugden, S., Park, A. T., Mackey, A. P., & Brannon, E. M. (2021). The neural basis of number word processing in children and adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 51, 101011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101011

Cárdenas, S. Y., Silva-Pereyra, J., Prieto-Corona, B., Castro-Chavira, S. A., & Fernández, T. (2021). Arithmetic processing in children with dyscalculia: an event-related potential study. PeerJ, 9, e10489. https://peerj.com/articles/10489/

CPD College (2015). Teachers TV: The brain and dyscalculia. (3:53 minutes). [video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqfCFOLVHd8&ab_channel=CPDCollege

Dowker, A. (2024). Developmental dyscalculia in relation to individual differences in mathematical abilities. Children, 11(6), 623. https://doi.org/10.3390/children11060623

Dumontheil, I., Brookman-Byrne, A., Tolmie, A. K., & Mareschal, D. (2022). Neural and cognitive underpinnings of counterintuitive science and math reasoning in adolescence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(7), 1205-1229. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01854

Espina, E., Marbán, J. M., & Maroto, A. I. (2024). Half a century of study to understand dyscalculia and its research trends. [Dissertation] Universidad de Granada. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/96193

Fengjuan, W., Jamaludin, A. (2023). The science of mathematics learning: An integrative review of neuroimaging data in developmental dyscalculia. In: W.L.D. Hung, A., Jamaludin, A.A, Rahman, (Eds.) Applying the science of learning to education (pp.55-78). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5378-3_3

Fengjuan, W., & Jamaludin, A. (2024). Data in developmental dyscalculia  In Wei Loong David Hung, Azilawati Jamaludin, Aishah Abdul Rahman (Eds.) Applying the science of learning to education: An insight into the mechanisms that shape learning, (pp.55-78). Spring Nature.  https://tinyurl.com/yfwcnxp5

Girard, C., Bastelica, T., Léone, J., Epinat-Duclos, J., Longo, L., & Prado, J. (2022). Nurturing the mathematical brain: home numeracy practices are associated with children’s neural responses to Arabic numerals. Psychological Science, 33(2), 196-211. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211034498

Göbel, S. M., Terry, R., Klein, E., Hymers, M., & Kaufmann, L. (2022). Impaired arithmetic fact retrieval in an adult with developmental dyscalculia: evidence from behavioral and functional brain imaging data. Brain Sciences, 12(6), 735. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12060735

Habib, M. (2021). The neurological basis of developmental dyslexia and related disorders: A reappraisal of the temporal hypothesis, twenty years on. Brain Sciences, 11(6), 708. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11060708

Istomina, A. V., Faber, A., Manzhurtsev, A. V., Ublinskiy, M. V., & Arsalidou, M. (2025). Neural correlates of solving arithmetic problems in adults. Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-025-01846-4

Kadosh, R. C., & Iuculano, T. (2024). Numerical and mathematical abilities in children: Behavioral and neural correlates. In K. C. Kadosh (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience (pp. 697–728). Oxford University Press. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-10208-025

Kale, E. H., Çalışır, Ö. M., Uran, P., Öner, Ö., Olkun, S., Anwander, A., ... & Çiçek, M. (2023). Changes in the superior longitudinal fasciculus and anterior thalamic radiation in the left brain are associated with developmental dyscalculia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1147352

Klein, E., Zamarian, L., & Kaufmann, L. (2023). Challenges in understanding numerical learning: Editorial for Brain Sciences special issue “neurocognitive signatures of math (learning) across the lifespan and their interrelation with other aspects of cognition and emotion”. Brain Sciences, 13(3), 420. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13030420

Klein, E., & Knops, A. (2023). The two-network framework of number processing: a step towards a better understanding of the neural origins of developmental dyscalculia. Journal of Neural Transmission, 130(3), 253-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-022-02580-8

Kwok, F. Y., Wilkey, E. D., Peters, L., Khiu, E., Bull, R., Lee, K., & Ansari, D. (2023). Developmental dyscalculia is not associated with atypical brain activation: A univariate fMRI study of arithmetic, magnitude processing, and visuospatial working memory. Human Brain Mapping, 44(18), 6308-6325.  https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26495

Lau, N. T., Ansari, D., & Sokolowski, H. M. (2024). Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.07.006

Leikin, R., Hsu, H. Y., Ansari, D., Abrahamson, D., Obersteiner, A., Miskin, M., & Waisman, I. (2025). Systematics review of the interdisciplinary exchange among mathematics education and neuroscience. ZDM–Mathematics Education, 1-20.

Liu, J., Supekar, K., El-Said, D., de Los Angeles, C., Zhang, Y., Chang, H., & Menon, V. (2024). Neuroanatomical, transcriptomic, and molecular correlates of math ability and their prognostic value for predicting learning outcomes. Science Advances, 10(22), eadk7220. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk7220

Magenes, S., Antonietti, A., & Cancer, A. (2021). Creative thinking and dyscalculia: Conjectures about a still unexplored link. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 671771. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.671771

Marks, R. A., Pollack, C., Meisler, S. L., D'Mello, A. M., Centanni, T. M., Romeo, R. R., ... & Christodoulou, J. A. (2024). Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing. Developmental Science, 27(2), e13443. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13443

Palmer, L. R., Sumanapala, D. K., Mareschal, D., Dumontheil, I., & UnLocke Team. (2025). Neural associations between inhibitory control and counterintuitive reasoning in science and maths in primary school children. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 37(5), 915-940. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02303

Pina, V., Campello, V. M., Lekadir, K., Seguí, S., García-Santos, J. M., & Fuentes, L. J. (2022). Mathematical abilities in school-aged children: a structural magnetic resonance imaging analysis with radiomics. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 819069. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.819069

Saga, M., Rkhaila, A., Ghros, S. G., & Ounine, K. (2025). Integration of the biopsychosocial model in the management of developmental dyscalculia: Support for teachers to enable inclusive education. In Integrating the biopsychosocial model in education (pp. 49-80). IGI Global Scientific Publishing. DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-3707-3.ch003

Santos, F. H., & Ribeiro, F. S. (2024). Remediation of developmental dyscalculia. In Dias, N.M., Cardoso, C.d.O. (eds) Neuropsychological interventions for children-Volume 2: Applications and interfaces (pp. 91-105). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56980-7_7

Skagenholt, M., Lyons, I. M., Skagerlund, K., & Träff, U. (2023). Connectome-based predictive modeling indicates dissociable neurocognitive mechanisms for numerical order and magnitude processing in children. Neuropsychologia, 184, 108563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108563

Skagenholt, M. (2022). Neurocognitive foundations of child and adult number processing neural correlates and functional circuits across typical development. Linkopings Universitet (Sweden). DOI:10.3384/9789179291594

Sokolowski, H. M., Hawes, Z., & Ansari, D. (2023). The neural correlates of retrieval and procedural strategies in mental arithmetic: A functional neuroimaging meta‐analysis. Human Brain Mapping, 44(1), 229-244.  https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26082

Starling-Alves, I., Shanley, L., Cook, M. A., Sabb, F. W., Smith, J., Clarke, B., & Wilkey, E. D. (2025). Children identified for classroom-based math support show altered resting-state connectivity in parietal brain regions. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 27013. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12809-7

Suárez-Pellicioni, M., Demir-Lira, Ö. E., & Booth, J. R. (2021). Neurocognitive mechanisms explaining the role of math attitudes in predicting children’s improvement in multiplication skill. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(5), 917-935. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00906-9

Taghizadeh, S., Hashemi, T., Jahan, A., & Nazari, M. A. (2021). The neural differences of arithmetic verification performance depend on math skill: Evidence from event‐related potential. Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 41(1), 73-81. https://doi.org/10.1002/npr2.12158

Üstün, S., Ayyıldız, N., Kale, E. H., Mançe Çalışır, Ö., Uran, P., Öner, Ö., ... & Çiçek, M. (2021). Children with dyscalculia show hippocampal hyperactivity during symbolic number perception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 687476.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.687476

Van Bueren, N. E., Van Der Ven, S. H., Roelofs, K., Cohen Kadosh, R., & Kroesbergen, E. H. (2022). Predicting math ability using working memory, number sense, and neurophysiology in children and adults. Brain Sciences, 12(5), 550. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050550

Viesel-Nordmeyer, N., & Prado, J. (2023). Arithmetic skills are associated with left fronto-temporal gray matter volume in 536 children and adolescents. npj Science of Learning, 8(1), 56. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00201-x

Vogel, S. E., & De Smedt, B. (2021). Developmental brain dynamics of numerical and arithmetic abilities. npj Science of Learning, 6(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00099-3

Wu, H., Zhao, L., Guo, Y., Lei, W., & Guo, C. (2022). Neural correlates of academic self-concept and the association with academic achievement in older children. Neuroscience, 482, 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.12.014

Xu, S., Li, Y., & Liu, J. (2021). The neural correlates of computational thinking: Collaboration of distinct cognitive components revealed by fMRI. Cerebral Cortex, 31(12), 5579-5597. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab182

Yeo, A. Y. N., Wang, F., & Jamaludin, A. (2024). Comparing neurocognitive mechanisms of mathematical ability and fluency in children: insights from an fNIRS study. bioRxiv, 2024-11. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.15.623735

Yuan, X., Ni, L., Li, H., Zhang, D., & Zhou, K. (2023). The neural correlates of individual differences in numerosity perception: A voxel-based morphometry study. Iscience, 26(8). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107392

Zeng, J., Yang, H., Tan, S., & Shang, J. (2025). Neural correlates of cognitive load variation in elementary school students during mental arithmetic tasks. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2025, pp. 953-961. International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/11826

Other Resources

Center For Educational Neuroscience. (2024). Myths and facts about dyscalculia. (8:11 minutes). [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02MB3zI5iNI&ab_channel=CentreforEducationalNeuroscience

ChildMind Institute. (2025). Signs of dyscalculia. (4:26 minutes). [video] https://tinyurl.com/y8ufa4kp

Education Week. (2024). Dyscalculia FAQ: The math disability teachers should know.  (4:55 minutes). [video]. https://tinyurl.com/3cr5mxhr

Education Week. (2022). Tips for teaching students with dyscalculia. (2:55 minutes). [video] https://tinyurl.com/3hvps79y

National Center for Learning Disabilities. (2012). What is dyscalculia? (7:45 minutes). [video] https://tinyurl.com/2phuve7s

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