How students understand STEM concepts: A fMRI study of expository science text comprehension

Ping Li; Chun-Ting  Hsu; Benjamin  Schloss; Roy  Clariana

How students understand STEM concepts: A fMRI study of expository science text comprehension

Ping Li
, Chun-Ting Hsu
, Benjamin Schloss
, Roy Clariana

Research output: Unpublished conference presentation (presented paper, abstract, poster) › Conference presentation (not published in journal/proceeding/book) › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

In this fMRI study, students read expository science texts for comprehension of basic STEM concepts while their BOLD responses and eye movements were recorded. High-skilled readers showed stronger connectivity among brain regions important for integrating semantic representation and building event representation. Graph-theoretical network measures of conceptual relations in the text also correlated with activity in inferior parietal and dorsolateral prefrontal regions, indicating text comprehension through semantic integration and working memory.

Original language	English
Publication status	Not published / presented only - Jul 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse - Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: 17 Jul 2018 → 19 Jul 2018 https://easychair.org/smart-program/STD2018/intro.html

Conference

Conference	28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Period	17/07/18 → 19/07/18
Internet address	https://easychair.org/smart-program/STD2018/intro.html

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2018. Paper presented at 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, United Kingdom.

Research output: Unpublished conference presentation (presented paper, abstract, poster) › Conference presentation (not published in journal/proceeding/book) › Academic research › peer-review

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