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http://dx.doi.org/10.21796/jse.2022.46.1.30

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

Lee, Seo-Ri (YeoCheon High School)
Kwon, Yong-Ju (Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of Science Education / v.46, no.1, 2022 , pp. 30-39 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
self-regulation; brain activity; fNIRS; biological phylogenetic task; secondary school;
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