Zhang, L and Gan, JQ and Wang, H (2015) Mathematically gifted adolescents mobilize enhanced workspace configuration of theta cortical network during deductive reasoning. Neuroscience, 289. pp. 334-348. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.12.072
Zhang, L and Gan, JQ and Wang, H (2015) Mathematically gifted adolescents mobilize enhanced workspace configuration of theta cortical network during deductive reasoning. Neuroscience, 289. pp. 334-348. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.12.072
Zhang, L and Gan, JQ and Wang, H (2015) Mathematically gifted adolescents mobilize enhanced workspace configuration of theta cortical network during deductive reasoning. Neuroscience, 289. pp. 334-348. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.12.072
Abstract
Previous studies have established the importance of the fronto-parietal brain network in the information processing of reasoning. At the level of cortical source analysis, this eletroencepalogram (EEG) study investigates the functional reorganization of the theta-band (4-8. Hz) neurocognitive network of mathematically gifted adolescents during deductive reasoning. Depending on the dense increase of long-range phase synchronizations in the reasoning process, math-gifted adolescents show more significant adaptive reorganization and enhanced "workspace" configuration in the theta network as compared with average-ability control subjects. The salient areas are mainly located in the anterior cortical vertices of the fronto-parietal network. Further correlation analyses have shown that the enhanced workspace configuration with respect to the global topological metrics of the theta network in math-gifted subjects is correlated with the intensive frontal midline theta (fm theta) response that is related to strong neural effort for cognitive events. These results suggest that by investing more cognitive resources math-gifted adolescents temporally mobilize an enhanced task-related global neuronal workspace, which is manifested as a highly integrated fronto-parietal information processing network during the reasoning process.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | math-gifted adolescents; functional network reorganization; frontal midline theta response; cortical source analysis; graph theory; workspace configuration |
Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 24 Feb 2015 08:26 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 19:46 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/12901 |