The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task.

ABSTRACT: Visual-spatial abilities are usually neglected in academic settings, even though several studies have shown that their predictive power in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains exceeds that of math and verbal ability. This neglect means that many spatially talented youths are not identified and nurtured, at a great cost to society. In the present work, we aim to identify behavioral and electrophysiological markers associated with visual spatial-ability in intellectually gifted adolescents (N = 15) compared to age-matched controls (N = 15). The participants performed a classic three-dimensional mental rotation task developed by Shepard and Metzler (1971) [33] while event-related potentials were measured in both frontal and parietal regions of interest. While response tim

SUBMITTER: Anomal RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7219753 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature