CORTICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF NUMBERS AND NONSYMBOLIC QUANTITIES EXPAND AND SEGREGATE IN CHILDREN FROM 5 TO 8 YEARS OF AGE

Cortical representations of numbers and nonsymbolic quantities expand and segregate in children from 5 to 8 years of age

Number symbols, such as Arabic numerals, are cultural inventions that have transformed human mathematical skills.Although their acquisition is at the core of early elementary education in children, it remains unknown how the neural representations of numerals emerge during that period.It is also unclear whether these relate to an ontogenetically ea

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Clinical undernutrition in 2014: pathogenesis, early diagnosis and consequences; undernutrition and trophopathy

The last ten years have allowed me to mature some concepts and criteria in relation to malnutrition in the clinical practice.A lot of us have devoted all our efforts in an attempt to take it under control.The results, however, have shown to be insufficient in the clinical practice, because Hospital Undernutrition still persists in our Cocktail Tabl

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