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Age-Specific Brain Activation in Secondary School Students' Self-Regulating Activities on Biological Tasks -fNIRS Study

생물 과제의 자기조절 활동에서 나타나는 중등학생의 연령별 두뇌 활성 -fNIRS 연구

  • Received : 2022.02.10
  • Accepted : 2022.04.21
  • Published : 2022.04.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze secondary school student's brain activity on assimilation, conflict, and accommodation processes of self-regulation. The self-regulation task was presented a biological phylogenetic task, and the brain activity was measured and analyzed with fNIRS. As a result, a significant activation was found in the left DLPFC, OFC, and FP regions in the conflict process compared to the assimilation process, and a significant activation was found in DLPFC and VLPFC in the accommodation process. As the age increase, the DLPFC also increases in the conflict process and VLPFC increases in the assimilation process. In addition, comparing conflict and accommodation process, the 7th grade students show a significant brain activity in the right VLPFC, the 9th grade students show significant brain activity in the left FP and DLPFC areas in the accommodation process. However, the 11th grade students did not show any significant brain activity at this process. These results presumably show that the neurological research method could be applied to educational research in cognitive activity and classroom instructional situation.

이 연구의 목적은 중등학생의 자기조절 과정에서 동화, 갈등, 조절의 세부 과정에 대한 뇌 활성을 비교하고 분석하는 것이다. 자기조절 과제는 생물학적 계통발생 과제로 제시되었고, 뇌활성은 fNIRS로 측정 및 분석되었다. 그 결과 동화 과정과 비교하여 갈등 과정에서 좌측 DLPFC, OFC, FP 영역에서 유의미한 활성이 발견되었고, 조절 과정에서는 DLPFC, VLPFC에서 유의미한 활성화가 발견되었다. 중등학생의 학년이 높아질수록 갈등 과정에서도 DLPFC가 증가하고 동화 과정에서도 VLPFC가 증가한다. 또한, 갈등과 조절 과정을 비교한 결과, 7학년 학생들은 오른쪽 VLPFC에서 유의미한 뇌 활동을 보였고, 9학년 학생들은 조절 과정에서 왼쪽 FP와 DLPFC 영역에서 유의미한 뇌 활동을 보였지만, 11학년 학생들은 이 과정에서 유의미한 뇌 활동을 보이지 않았다. 이러한 결과는 신경학적 연구 방법이 인지 활동과 강의실 교육 상황과 관련된 교육 연구에 적용될 수 있음을 보여준다.

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이 논문은 정부(과학기술정보통신부)의 재원으로 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임(No. 2019R1F1A1058641).

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