Nature Communications (May 2019)

Decoding individual differences in STEM learning from functional MRI data

  • Joshua S. Cetron,
  • Andrew C. Connolly,
  • Solomon G. Diamond,
  • Vicki V. May,
  • James V. Haxby,
  • David J. M. Kraemer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10053-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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People differ in their current levels of understanding of many complex concepts. Here, the authors show using fMRI that brain activity during a task that requires concept knowledge can be used to compute a ‘neural score’ of the participant’s understanding.