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Although addition and subtraction are the basic operations, in the view of information processing, consensus on the relationship between them has not yet achieved. This study aimed to understand the common points and differences as well as the underlying neural substrates between addition and subtraction through the analysis on the data derived from magnetic resonance imaging measurement. Three kinds of tasks: addition task (AT), subtraction task (ST) and memory task (MT) were solved by seventeen adults. Our results revealed that simple addition also induced the activation in intraparietal sulcus (IPS); activation in hippocampal areas responsible for retrieval was discovered during subtraction calculation; subtraction showed stronger activation in Broca’s Area when compared with addition. The findings suggest that calculation strategy is not the key point for distinguishing addition and subtraction, the activation in Broca’s Area indicates the differences between the two operations may concern grammar and language expression.
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Yang, Y., Zhong, N., Imamura, K., Lei, X. (2013). Common and Dissociable Neural Substrates for 2-Digit Simple Addition and Subtraction. In: Imamura, K., Usui, S., Shirao, T., Kasamatsu, T., Schwabe, L., Zhong, N. (eds) Brain and Health Informatics. BHI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8211. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02753-1_10
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