{"title":"General intelligence in the age of neuroimaging","authors":"Michael I. Posner , Aron K. Barbey","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2020.100126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2020.100126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100126"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2020.100126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37666781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Graham Pluck , Patricia Bravo Mancero , Paola Alexandra Ortíz Encalada , Angélica María Urquizo Alcívar , Claudio E. Maldonado Gavilanez , Paola Chacon
{"title":"Differential associations of neurobehavioral traits and cognitive ability to academic achievement in higher education","authors":"Graham Pluck , Patricia Bravo Mancero , Paola Alexandra Ortíz Encalada , Angélica María Urquizo Alcívar , Claudio E. Maldonado Gavilanez , Paola Chacon","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100124","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100124","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>People vary between each other on several neurobehavioral traits, which may have implications for understanding academic achievement.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>University-level Psychology or Engineering students were assessed for neurobehavioral traits, intelligence, and current psychological distress. Scores were compared with their grade point average (GPA) data.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Factors associated with higher GPA differed markedly between groups. For Engineers, intelligence, but not neurobehavioral traits or psychological distress, was a strong correlate of grades. For Psychologists, grades were not correlated with intelligence but they were with the neurobehavioral traits of executive dysfunction<span>, disinhibition<span>, apathy, and positive schizotypy. However, only the latter two were associated independently of psychological distress. Additionally, higher mixed-handedness was associated with higher GPA in the combined sample.</span></span></p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Neurological factors (i.e., neurobehavioral traits and intelligence), are differentially associated with university-level grades, depending on the major studied. However, mixed-handedness may prove to be a better general predictor of academic performance across disciplines.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100124"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2019.100124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37666783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana M. Daugherty , Bradley P. Sutton , Charles H. Hillman , Arthur F. Kramer , Neal J. Cohen , Aron K. Barbey
{"title":"Individual differences in the neurobiology of fluid intelligence predict responsiveness to training: Evidence from a comprehensive cognitive, mindfulness meditation, and aerobic exercise intervention","authors":"Ana M. Daugherty , Bradley P. Sutton , Charles H. Hillman , Arthur F. Kramer , Neal J. Cohen , Aron K. Barbey","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Fluid intelligence (G<sub>f</sub>) is a critical cognitive ability that is predictive of real-world outcomes, and it has been a persistent aim to characterize its neural architecture.</p></div><div><h3>Procedure</h3><p><span>We advance our prior research by applying latent class analysis to evaluate individual differences in the neural and cognitive foundations of G</span><sub>f</sub> over the course of a 16-week randomized, multi-modal intervention trial in neurologically healthy, younger adults (<em>N </em>= 424).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Controlling for pre-intervention ability, three latent classes described individual performance at post-intervention and one group (<em>n </em><span>= 71) showed greater gains in visuospatial reasoning and high performance at post-intervention. The high performance group was predicted by larger anterior cingulate cortex<span>, caudate and hippocampus<span> volumes, and smaller middle frontal, insula and parahippocampal cortex volumes.</span></span></span></p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Regions that support cognitive control, working memory, and relational processes differentiated individuals who had higher G<sub>f</sub> ability at pre-intervention and demonstrated a cumulative better response to the intervention.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100123"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2019.100123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37666780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are specific learning disorders truly specific, and are they disorders?","authors":"Lien Peters, Daniel Ansari","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Specific learning disorders, such as dyslexia and dyscalculia, are frequently studied to inform our understanding of cognitive development, genetic mechanisms and brain function. In this Opinion Paper, we discuss limitations of this research approach, including the use of arbitrary criteria to select groups of children, heterogeneity within groups and overlap between domains of learning. By drawing on evidence from cognitive science, neuroscience and genetics, we propose an alternative, dimensional framework. We argue that we need to overcome the problems associated with a categorical approach by taking into account interacting factors at multiple levels of analysis that are associated with overlapping rather than entirely distinct domains of learning. We conclude that this research strategy will allow for a richer understanding of learning and development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"17 ","pages":"Article 100115"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2019.100115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90582444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Graham Pluck, David Villagomez-Pacheco, María Isabel Karolys, María Emilia Montaño-Córdova, Pamela Almeida-Meza
{"title":"Response suppression, strategy application, and working memory in the prediction of academic performance and classroom misbehavior: A neuropsychological approach","authors":"Graham Pluck, David Villagomez-Pacheco, María Isabel Karolys, María Emilia Montaño-Córdova, Pamela Almeida-Meza","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100121","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p><span>Neurological illness can produce a disorganization of behavior, including verbal </span>disinhibition<span>, despite apparent preserved intelligence. Neuropsychological tests of such behavioral control mechanisms may predict real-world performance of healthy people, such as success or misbehavior in educational contexts.</span></p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>In two separate studies, we examined how the Hayling Test of verbal response suppression predicts grades and classroom misbehavior.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Verbal suppression errors and spontaneous strategy use were significant predictors of undergraduate grades. Using a modified version of the Hayling Test designed to reduce strategic responding with high school students (mean age 16), higher grades were predicted by shorter response suppression latencies and better working memory scores, and classroom misbehavior was predicted by lower working memory scores.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Verbal response suppression and spontaneous strategy use, both closely linked to disorganized behavior in neuropsychological patients, predict academic achievement but seem unrelated to classroom misbehavior, which is associated with weakness in working memory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"17 ","pages":"Article 100121"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2019.100121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90324171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Morris D. Bell , Ahmet Esat Imal , Brian Pittman , Grace Jin , Bruce E. Wexler
{"title":"The development of adaptive risk taking and the role of executive functions in a large sample of school-age boys and girls","authors":"Morris D. Bell , Ahmet Esat Imal , Brian Pittman , Grace Jin , Bruce E. Wexler","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The Balloon Analogue Risk Task for Children (BART-C) demands self-regulation of emotion that requires risk-tolerance and adaptive risk-taking to make good decisions under stress (hot cognition).</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>BART-C measures of adaptive risk-taking in 5,409 children K-8th grade were analyzed for improvements by grade, for relationships to executive functioning (EF) and for associations with school characteristics and academic achievement.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>BART-C improved across grades. Boys showed significantly greater Recklessness, particularly in middle school. EF was a partial mediator between grade and Variability and Recklessness. Better BART-C Total score and less Recklessness were related to lower free-or-reduced-school-lunch percentage and better math and reading proficiency of children's schools.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>BART-C is a potential “hot-cognition” measure of self-regulation and adaptive risk-taking for children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"17 ","pages":"Article 100120"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2019.100120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75806138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connecting levels of analysis in educational neuroscience: A review of multi-level structure of educational neuroscience with concrete examples","authors":"Hyemin Han , Firat Soylu , D. Mona Anchan","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>In its origins educational neuroscience has started as an endeavor to discuss implications of neuroscience studies for education. However, it is now on its way to become a transdisciplinary field, incorporating findings, theoretical frameworks and methodologies from education, and cognitive and brain sciences. Given the differences and diversity in the originating disciplines, it has been a challenge for educational neuroscience to integrate both theoretical and methodological perspectives in education and neuroscience in a coherent way. We present a multi-level framework for educational neuroscience, which argues for integration of multiple levels of analysis, some originating in brain and </span>cognitive sciences<span>, others in education, as a roadmap for the future of educational neuroscience, with concrete examples in mathematical learning<span> and moral education.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"17 ","pages":"Article 100113"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2019.100113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90245898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using collaborative action research to resolve practical and philosophical challenges in educational neuroscience","authors":"Joshua J. Amiel , Yuen Sze Michelle Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p><span>Researchers routinely cite neuromyths and neurorealism as barriers preventing teachers from effectively applying brain research to practice. A primary goal within educational neuroscience (EN), is to provide teachers with </span>professional development that allows them to overcome these barriers and gain agency in developing the field. Yet, the EN literature does not provide a tangible framework for developing teachers' philosophical perspectives regarding neuroscience in education.</p></div><div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>Here, we review the history of teacher neuroscience professional development and identify challenges in developing EN teacher learning programs. Next, we present ‘learning study’, a form of collaborative action research, as a framework for addressing these challenges.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>We highlight how learning study could be used as an appropriate model for exploring future classroom applications of theoretical neuroscience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"16 ","pages":"Article 100116"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2019.100116","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83334890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kara L. Kerr , Erin L. Ratliff , Kelly T. Cosgrove , Jerzy Bodurka , Amanda Sheffield Morris , W. Kyle Simmons
{"title":"Parental influences on neural mechanisms underlying emotion regulation","authors":"Kara L. Kerr , Erin L. Ratliff , Kelly T. Cosgrove , Jerzy Bodurka , Amanda Sheffield Morris , W. Kyle Simmons","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.100118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Emotional intelligence allows for the recognition and regulation of emotions in the self and others, making it critical for healthy social and emotional development. Research has shown that the parent-child relationship and family environment are influential in the development of emotion regulation<span>, one key component of emotional intelligence. However, the neurobiological processes underlying this relationship have yet to be fully explored. This review examines perspectives from several disciplines to further understand the influence of parent-child interactions on the neurocircuitry shaping emotion regulation. Our proposed model demonstrates how parent-child interactions and parents’ emotion regulation neurocircuitry may influence the development of children's own emotion regulation neurocircuitry, with a specific focus on associations among prefrontal regions, the anterior insula<span>, and the amygdala.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"16 ","pages":"Article 100118"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2019.100118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79951537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Espin , Irene García , Maria del Pino Sánchez , Francisco Román , Alicia Salvador
{"title":"Effects of psychosocial stress on the hormonal and affective response in children with dyslexia","authors":"Laura Espin , Irene García , Maria del Pino Sánchez , Francisco Román , Alicia Salvador","doi":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tine.2019.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Research on stress and dyslexia has mainly focused on chronic and contextual stress caused by the school environment. Our goal was to test individual differences in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis reactivity of dyslexic and non-dyslexic children and the related emotional manifestations associated with exposure to a psychosocial stressor.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Eighty-one children (11–14 years old; 38 dyslexic) were exposed to the Trier Social Stress Test adapted to children or to a control condition. The salivary cortisol response, anxiety, and mood were measured before and after the stress.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Dyslexic children did not show the expected cortisol response, as the highest percentage of children who were non-reactive to stress was found in this group. Cortisol reactivity to stress was related to higher levels of anxiety and lower positive affect in the non-dyslexic children.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>These results suggest a pattern of hypo-activation of the HPA axis to psychosocial stress in children with dyslexia.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46228,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Neuroscience and Education","volume":"15 ","pages":"Pages 1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.tine.2019.03.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37313027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}