Magnitudes in Children Born Prematurely: Evidence From fMRI

tilak.at Color versions of one or more of the figures in the article can be found online at www.tandfonline.com/hdvn. fMRI AND MAGNITUDE PROCESSING IN PREMATURITY 343 This study examined the neural correlates of intentional and automatic number processing (indexed by number comparison and physical Stroop task, respectively) in 6- and 7-year-old children born prematurely. Behavioral results revealed significant numerical distance and size congruity effects. Imaging results disclosed (1) largely overlapping fronto-parietal activation for intentional and auto-matic number processing, (2) a frontal to parietal shift of activation upon considering the risk factors gestational age and birth weight, and (3) a task-specific link between math proficiency and functiona