- Stanford University School of Medicine conducted a research on why kids hate math but can remember facts fluently
- As per a professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences Mr.Vinod Menon opined that the work provides insight into the dynamic changes that occur over the course of cognitive development in each child
- Further he said “The hippocampus provides a scaffold for learning and consolidating facts into long-term memory in children,”
- Around 28 children solved simple math problem and two functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans and these scans were done about 1.2 years apart
- Children’s brain was able to get the hippocampus faster and activated more children’s after a year
- The regions that were involved in counting include parts of prefrontal and parietal cortex were lesser activated and the scientists noticed changes in the degree in the hippocampus that was connected to other parts of children’s brain
- Many parts of the prefrontal, anterior temporal cortex and parietal cortex were to the hippocampus after one year, many parts of the prefrontal, anterior temporal cortex and parietal cortex more strongly connected to the hippocampus after one year
- If these connections are stronger then each individual child’s ability to retrieve math facts from memory, the findings showed
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/researchers-find-answer-to-why-some-children-hate-math/article6330264.ece