How does formal schooling affect the development of arithmetic, its neurocognitive predictors and its underlying brain networks? KU Leuven
At the ages 5 to 7, there are massive developmental changes in children’s neurocognitive functioning and brain development. These changes also coincide with the transition to formal education in primary school, during which there is a major change in modes of instruction from learning via less-structured playful activities in kindergarten, to learning via more structured and formal direct instruction in first grade. A critical question is how ...