TY - JOUR
T1 - Healthy children show gender differences in correlations between nonverbal cognitive ability and brain activation during visual perception
AU - Asano, Kohei
AU - Taki, Yasuyuki
AU - Hashizume, Hiroshi
AU - Sassa, Yuko
AU - Thyreau, Benjamin
AU - Asano, Michiko
AU - Takeuchi, Hikaru
AU - Kawashima, Ryuta
PY - 2014/8/8
Y1 - 2014/8/8
N2 - Humans perceive textual and nontextual information in visual perception, and both depend on language. In childhood education, students exhibit diverse perceptual abilities, such that some students process textual information better and some process nontextual information better. These predispositions involve many factors, including cognitive ability and learning preference. However, the relationship between verbal and nonverbal cognitive abilities and brain activation during visual perception has not yet been examined in children. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the relationship between nonverbal and verbal cognitive abilities and brain activation during nontextual visual perception in large numbers of children. A significant positive correlation was found between nonverbal cognitive abilities and brain activation in the right temporoparietal junction, which is thought to be related to attention reorienting. This significant positive correlation existed only in boys. These findings suggested that male brain activation differed from female brain activation, and that this depended on individual cognitive processes, even if there was no gender difference in behavioral performance.
AB - Humans perceive textual and nontextual information in visual perception, and both depend on language. In childhood education, students exhibit diverse perceptual abilities, such that some students process textual information better and some process nontextual information better. These predispositions involve many factors, including cognitive ability and learning preference. However, the relationship between verbal and nonverbal cognitive abilities and brain activation during visual perception has not yet been examined in children. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the relationship between nonverbal and verbal cognitive abilities and brain activation during nontextual visual perception in large numbers of children. A significant positive correlation was found between nonverbal cognitive abilities and brain activation in the right temporoparietal junction, which is thought to be related to attention reorienting. This significant positive correlation existed only in boys. These findings suggested that male brain activation differed from female brain activation, and that this depended on individual cognitive processes, even if there was no gender difference in behavioral performance.
KW - Functional magnetic resonance imaging
KW - Gender difference
KW - Nonverbal cognitive ability
KW - The right temporoparietal junction
KW - Visual perception
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.06.015
DO - 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.06.015
M3 - Article
C2 - 24937269
AN - SCOPUS:84903446339
VL - 577
SP - 66
EP - 71
JO - Neuroscience Letters
JF - Neuroscience Letters
SN - 0304-3940
ER -