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Quality of white matter in the brain is crucial for adding and multiplying (but not subracting and dividing)

January 27, 2014 by

A new study has found that healthy 12-year-olds who score well in addition and multiplication have higher-quality white matter tracts. This correlation does not appear to apply to subtraction and division.

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