Neurocognitive Signatures of Naturalistic Reading of Scientific Texts: A Fixation-Related fMRI Study.

ABSTRACT: How do students gain scientific knowledge while reading expository text? This study examines the underlying neurocognitive basis of textual knowledge structure and individual readers' cognitive differences and reading habits, including the influence of text and reader characteristics, on outcomes of scientific text comprehension. By combining fixation-related fMRI and multiband data acquisition, the study is among the first to consider self-paced naturalistic reading inside the MRI scanner. Our results revealed the underlying neurocognitive patterns associated with information integration of different time scales during text reading, and significant individual differences due to the interaction between text characteristics (e.g., optimality of the textual knowledge structure) and reader ch

SUBMITTER: Hsu CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6681173 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature