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The Biologists' Boon Activation Patterns during the Generation of Scientific Questions on Biological Phenomena  

Kwon, Yong-Ju (Korean National University of Education)
Jeong, Jin-Su (Korean National University of Education)
Lee, Jun-Ki (Korean National University of Education)
Yang, Il-Ho (Korean National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.27, no.1, 2007 , pp. 84-92 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate biologists' brain activation patterns during the generation of scientific questions on biological phenomena. Eight right-handed healthy biologists volunteered to be participants in the present study. The question-generation tasks were presented in a block design. The BOLD signals of the biologists' brain were measured by 3.0T fMRI system and data were analyzed using Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM2). According to our results, the left inferior and middle frontal gyri, the medial prefrontal cortex, the bilateral hippocampus, the occipito-parietal route, the fusiform gyrus, and the cerebellum were activated significantly during the generation of scientific questions. Therefore, we suggested that generating scientific question is associated with analyzing observed situations, using verbal strategy, retrieving episodic memories for comparisons, and feeling cognitive conflicts.
Keywords
scientific question; biologist; fMRI; brain activation pattern; biological phenomena; VLPFC;
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