Functional magnetic resonance imaging study of Piaget's conservation-of-number task in preschool and school-age children: A neo-Piagetian approach

Olivier Houdé; Arlette Pineau; Gaëlle Leroux; Nicolas Poirel; Guy Perchey; Céline Lanoë; Amélie Lubin; Marie-Renée Turbelin; Sandrine Rossi; Grégory Simon; Nicolas Delcroix; Franck Lamberton; Mathieu Vigneau; Gabriel Wisniewski; Jean-René Vicet; Bernard Mazoyer

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2011.04.008

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging study of Piaget's conservation-of-number task in preschool and school-age children: A neo-Piagetian approach

Olivier Houdé ^{1, 2} Arlette Pineau ¹ Gaëlle Leroux ¹ Nicolas Poirel ¹ Guy Perchey ¹ Céline Lanoë ¹ Amélie Lubin ¹ Marie-Renée Turbelin ^{1, 3} Sandrine Rossi ¹ Grégory Simon ¹ Nicolas Delcroix ¹ Franck Lamberton ¹ Mathieu Vigneau ¹ Gabriel Wisniewski ⁴ Jean-René Vicet ⁴ Bernard Mazoyer ^{1, 2, 3}

1 CI-NAPS - UMR 6232 - Centre-Imagerie, Neurosciences, et Application aux Pathologies

2 IUF - Institut Universitaire de France

3 CHU Caen

4 Ministère de l'Education Nationale

Abstract : Jean Piaget's theory is a central reference point in the study of log-ico-mathematical development in children. One of the most famous Piagetian tasks is number conservation. Failures and successes in this task reveal two fundamental stages in children's thinking and judgment, shifting at approximately 7 years of age from visuospatial intuition to number conservation. In the current study, preschool children (nonconservers, 5-6 years of age) and school-age children (conservers, 9-10 years of age) were presented with Piaget's conservation-of-number task and monitored by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The cognitive change allowing children to access conservation was shown to be related to the neural contribution of a bilateral parietofrontal network involved in numerical and executive functions. These fMRI results highlight how the behavioral and cognitive stages Piaget formulated during the 20th century manifest in the brain with age.

Keywords : Functional MRI Jean Piaget’s stages Cognitive development Number conservation Executive functions Inhibition

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