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Watanabe, Nobuki – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2023
The role of executive function training in supporting child development has been increasingly studied. Executive function is largely related to the prefrontal cortex. The anterior portion of the prefrontal cortex, which is area 10 on the Brodmann map, is essential for the emergence of higher-order executive functions. Accumulating evidence…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Alphabets, Numbers
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Peña, Javier; Sampedro, Agurne; Gómez-Gastiasoro, Ainara; Ibarretxe-Bilbao, Naroa; Zubiaurre-Elorza, Leire; Aguiar, Covadonga; Ojeda, Natalia – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) increases performance in some perceptual tasks. However, little is known about its effect on creativity. Although dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been postulated as an important cortical area related to creativity, the relative role of left and right DLPFC is still unclear. We aimed to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Acoustics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Creative Thinking
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Kraus, Brian; Holtgraves, Thomas – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
While past research has demonstrated a link between the subjective "Aha" experience of insight and verbal insight problem solution activation in the right hemisphere (RH), no one has yet linked insight to long term semantic priming. We propose that through a shared process of semantic integration both of these concepts are linked and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Priming, Decision Making
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Takeuchi, Naoyuki; Mori, Takayuki; Suzukamo, Yoshimi; Izumi, Shin-Ichi – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2019
Metacognitive functions are important for both teachers and students to facilitate teaching and learning. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a proven role in metacognition. As a pilot study, we evaluated the PFC activity of teachers and students using near-infrared spectroscopy devices to explore the neural mechanism of PFC underlying metacognitive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Problem Solving, Spectroscopy
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Liu, Yu-Cheng; Liang, Chaoyun – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Differences exist between engineering and liberal arts students because of their educational backgrounds. Therefore, they solve problems differently. This study examined the brain activation of these two groups of students when they responded to 12 questions of verbal, numerical, or spatial intelligence. A total of 25 engineering and 25 liberal…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Engineering Education, Spatial Ability, Liberal Arts
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Mughaz, Dror; Cohen, Michael; Mejahez, Sagit; Ades, Tal; Bouhnik, Dan – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2020
Aim/Purpose: Using Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning (DL) techniques, which mimic the action of the brain, to improve a student's grammar learning process. Finding the subject of a sentence using DL, and learning, by way of this computer field, to analyze human learning processes and mistakes. In addition, showing Artificial Intelligence…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Methods, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Grammar
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Nitschke, Kai; Ruh, Nina; Kappler, Sonja; Stahl, Christoph; Kaller, Christoph P. – Brain and Cognition, 2012
Understanding the functional neuroanatomy of planning and problem solving may substantially benefit from better insight into the chronology of the cognitive processes involved. Based on the assumption that regularities in cognitive processing are reflected in overtly observable eye-movement patterns, here we recorded eye movements while…
Descriptors: Evidence, Eye Movements, Problem Solving, Short Term Memory
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Ruh, Nina; Rahm, Benjamin; Unterrainer, Josef M.; Weiller, Cornelius; Kaller, Christoph P. – Brain and Cognition, 2012
In a companion study, eye-movement analyses in the Tower of London task (TOL) revealed independent indicators of functionally separable cognitive processes during problem solving, with processes of building up an internal representation of the problem preceding actual planning processes. These results imply that processes of internalization and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Brain, Eye Movements, Task Analysis
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Bereczkei, Tamas; Deak, Anita; Papp, Peter; Perlaki, Gabor; Orsi, Gergely – Brain and Cognition, 2013
In spite of having deficits in various areas of social cognition, especially in mindreading, Machiavellian individuals are typically very successful in different tasks, including solving social dilemmas. We assume that a profound examination of neural structures associated with decision-making processes is needed to learn more about…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Rewards, Risk, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Cooper, Jeffrey C.; Dunne, Simon; Furey, Teresa; O'Doherty, John P. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2012
The dorsal striatum plays a key role in the learning and expression of instrumental reward associations that are acquired through direct experience. However, not all learning about instrumental actions require direct experience. Instead, humans and other animals are also capable of acquiring instrumental actions by observing the experiences of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning, Prediction
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Paynter, Christopher A.; Kotovsky, Kenneth; Reder, Lynne M. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
When subjects are given the balls-and-boxes problem-solving task (Kotovsky & Simon, 1990), they move rapidly towards the goal after an extended exploratory phase, despite having no awareness of how to solve the task. We investigated possible non-conscious learning mechanisms by giving subjects three runs of the task while recording ERPs. Subjects…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Task Analysis
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Wartenburger, Isabell; Kuhn, Esther; Sassenberg, Uta; Foth, Manja; Franz, Elizabeth A.; van der Meer, Elke – Intelligence, 2010
Individuals scoring high in fluid intelligence tasks generally perform very efficiently in problem solving tasks and analogical reasoning tasks presumably because they are able to select the task-relevant information very quickly and focus on a limited set of task-relevant cognitive operations. Moreover, individuals with high fluid intelligence…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Imagery, Scores
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Paynter, Christopher A.; Reder, Lynne M.; Kieffaber, Paul D. – Neuropsychologia, 2009
Subjects performed a rapid feeling-of-knowing task developed by (Reder, L. M., & Ritter, F. (1992). "What determines initial feeling of knowing? Familiarity with question terms, not with the answer." "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition," 18, 435-451), while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded to identify…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Memory, Experimental Psychology, Task Analysis
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Kazi, Smaragda; Demetriou, Andreas; Spanoudis, George; Zhang, Xiang Kui; Wang, Yuan – Intelligence, 2012
This study investigated intellectual development in 4-7 years old Greek and Chinese children. They were examined on speeded performance, working memory, reasoning, and self-awareness tasks in order to investigate possible effects of learning the Chinese logographic system on possible differences in intellectual development between these ethnic…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Romanization, Chinese, Intellectual Development
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Davis, Nicole; Cannistraci, Christopher J.; Rogers, Baxter P.; Gatenby, J. Christopher; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Anderson, Adam W.; Gore, John C. – Neuropsychologia, 2009
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore the patterns of brain activation associated with different levels of performance in exact and approximate calculation tasks in well-defined cohorts of children with mathematical calculation difficulties (MD) and typically developing controls. Both groups of children activated the same…
Descriptors: Computation, Arithmetic, Problem Solving, At Risk Persons