title: Automatic number priming effects in adults with and without mathematical learning disabilities.
abstract: This study examined automatic number processing in adults with mathematical learning disabilities (MLDs). The performance of adults with MLD during an automatic symbolic and non-symbolic priming task was compared to gender-, age-, and IQ-matched controls. No difference in the priming distance effect was found between the adults with and without MLD, suggesting that adults with MLD have an intact magnitude representation. Moreover, the adults with MLD did not have problems in processing the numerical symbols 1-9, suggesting that this basic deficit which is experienced by children with MLD is resolved by adulthood.
authors.affiliation: Experimental Psychology, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium ; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven Kulak Kortrijk, Belgium.
authors.forename: Emmy
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Defever
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of York York, UK.
authors.forename: Silke M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Göbel
authors.affiliation: Parenting and Special Education Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Pol
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ghesquière
authors.affiliation: Experimental Psychology, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium ; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven Kulak Kortrijk, Belgium.
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Reynvoet
keywords: access deficit; magnitude representation; mathematical learning disabilities; priming task; representation deficit