Functional connectivities of the hypothesis-generating and hypothesis-understanding in high school students and biologists
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Korea National University of Education, Republic of Korea
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NYU, United States
A hypothesis-generating has been regarded as one of core reasoning processes in creative thinking and scientific discovery. We aimed to examine the difference of the neural connectivities between hypothesis-generating and hypothesis-understanding in the general and science high school students, and the biologists using fMRI. We designed two sets of task paradigm on the biological phenomena for hypothesis-generating and hypothesis-understanding. Thirty six healthy participants (twelve participants per group) were administered the hypothesis-generating and understanding tasks. The results have shown a strong interconnectionship of functional connectivity in the biologist group which has the superior ability of the hypothesis generation. The group has been found a significant functional connectivity between the frontal cortex and the mesolimbic system called fronto-striatal pathway. The biologist group was also recorded the highest interconnectionships in other some functional connectivities associated to hypothesis-generating. Taken together, it can be concluded that an ability gap of hypothesis-generating between groups has been resulted from not only the activation of the particular region but the interconnectionship of functional connectivity related to network fluidity. Specially, the biologists’ superior ability of the hypothesis-generating were resulted from their highly strengthen interconnectionship of functional connectivity.
Conference:
41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting, Rhodes Island, Greece, 13 Sep - 18 Sep, 2009.
Presentation Type:
Poster Presentation
Topic:
Poster presentations
Citation:
Byeon
J,
Lee
J and
Kwon
Y
(2009). Functional connectivities of the hypothesis-generating and hypothesis-understanding in high school students and biologists.
Conference Abstract:
41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting.
doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.08.2009.09.101
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Received:
08 Jun 2009;
Published Online:
08 Jun 2009.
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Correspondence:
Jung-Ho Byeon, Korea National University of Education, Cheongwon, Republic of Korea, bjhknm@naver.com