The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task
Visual-spatial abilities are usually neglected in academic settings, even though several studies have shown that their predictive power in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains exceeds that of math and verbal ability. This neglect means that many spatially talented youths are not...
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ri-123456789-290382020-05-24T09:22:21Z The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task Anomal, Renata Figueiredo Brandão, Daniel Soares Porto, Silvia Beltrame Oliveira, Sóstenes Silva de Souza, Rafaela Faustino Lacerda de Fiel, José de Santana Gomes, Bruno Duarte Pires, Izabel Augusta Hazin Pereira Jr, Antonio Cerebral cortex visual ability - adolescents spatial ability - adolescents electroencephalography Visual-spatial abilities are usually neglected in academic settings, even though several studies have shown that their predictive power in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains exceeds that of math and verbal ability. This neglect means that many spatially talented youths are not identified and nurtured, at a great cost to society. In the present work, we aim to identify behavioral and electrophysiological markers associated with visual spatial-ability in intellectually gifted adolescents (N = 15) compared to age-matched controls (N = 15). The participants performed a classic three-dimensional mental rotation task developed by Shepard and Metzler (1971) [33] while event-related potentials were measured in both frontal and parietal regions of interest. While response time was similar in the two groups, gifted subjects performed the test with greater accuracy. There was no indication of interhemispheric asymmetry of ERPs over parietal regions in both groups, although interhemispheric differences were observed in the frontal lobes. Moreover, intelligence quotient and working memory measures predicted variance in ERP’s amplitude in the right parietal and frontal hemispheres. We conclude that while gifted adolescents do not display a different pattern of electroencephalographic activity over the parietal cortex while performing the mental rotation task, their performance is correlated with the amplitude of ERPs in the frontal cortex during the execution of this task. 2020-05-21T16:50:52Z 2020-05-21T16:50:52Z 2020-05-13 article ANOMAL, R. F. et al. The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task. PLoS One, [S. l.], v. 15, n. 5, p. e0232660, maio 2020. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0232660 https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/29038 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232660 en application/pdf |
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Visual-spatial abilities are usually neglected in academic settings, even though several studies have shown that their predictive power in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains exceeds that of math and verbal ability. This neglect means that many spatially talented youths are not identified and nurtured, at a great cost to society. In the present work, we aim to identify behavioral and electrophysiological markers associated with visual spatial-ability in intellectually gifted adolescents (N = 15) compared to age-matched controls (N = 15). The participants performed a classic three-dimensional mental rotation task developed by Shepard and Metzler (1971) [33] while event-related potentials were measured in both frontal and parietal regions of interest. While response time was similar in the two groups, gifted subjects performed the test with greater accuracy. There was no indication of interhemispheric asymmetry of ERPs over parietal regions in both groups, although interhemispheric differences were observed in the frontal lobes. Moreover, intelligence quotient and working memory measures predicted variance in ERP’s amplitude in the right parietal and frontal hemispheres. We conclude that while gifted adolescents do not display a different pattern of electroencephalographic activity over the parietal cortex while performing the mental rotation task, their performance is correlated with the amplitude of ERPs in the frontal cortex during the execution of this task. |
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Anomal, Renata Figueiredo Brandão, Daniel Soares Porto, Silvia Beltrame Oliveira, Sóstenes Silva de Souza, Rafaela Faustino Lacerda de Fiel, José de Santana Gomes, Bruno Duarte Pires, Izabel Augusta Hazin Pereira Jr, Antonio |
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Anomal, Renata Figueiredo Brandão, Daniel Soares Porto, Silvia Beltrame Oliveira, Sóstenes Silva de Souza, Rafaela Faustino Lacerda de Fiel, José de Santana Gomes, Bruno Duarte Pires, Izabel Augusta Hazin Pereira Jr, Antonio |
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The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task |
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The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task |
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The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task |
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The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task |
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The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task |
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role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task |
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