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

Anomal, Renata Figueiredo; Brandão, Daniel Soares; Porto, Silvia Beltrame; Oliveira, Sóstenes Silva de; Souza, Rafaela Faustino Lacerda de; Fiel, José de Santana; Gomes, Bruno Duarte; Pires, Izabel Augusta Hazin; Pereira Jr, Antonio

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

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dc.contributor.author	Anomal, Renata Figueiredo
dc.contributor.author	Brandão, Daniel Soares
dc.contributor.author	Porto, Silvia Beltrame
dc.contributor.author	Oliveira, Sóstenes Silva de
dc.contributor.author	Souza, Rafaela Faustino Lacerda de
dc.contributor.author	Fiel, José de Santana
dc.contributor.author	Gomes, Bruno Duarte
dc.contributor.author	Pires, Izabel Augusta Hazin
dc.contributor.author	Pereira Jr, Antonio
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-21T16:50:52Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-21T16:50:52Z
dc.date.issued	2020-05-13
dc.description.resumo	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 time was similar in the two groups, gifted subjects performed the test with greater accuracy. There was no indication of interhemispheric asymmetry of ERPs over parietal regions in both groups, although interhemispheric differences were observed in the frontal lobes. Moreover, intelligence quotient and working memory measures predicted variance in ERP’s amplitude in the right parietal and frontal hemispheres. We conclude that while gifted adolescents do not display a different pattern of electroencephalographic activity over the parietal cortex while performing the mental rotation task, their performance is correlated with the amplitude of ERPs in the frontal cortex during the execution of this task.	pt_BR
dc.identifier.citation	ANOMAL, R. F. et al. The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task. PLoS One, [S. l.], v. 15, n. 5, p. e0232660, maio 2020. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0232660	pt_BR
dc.identifier.doi	doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232660
dc.identifier.uri	https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/29038
dc.language	en	pt_BR
dc.subject	Cerebral cortex	pt_BR
dc.subject	visual ability - adolescents	pt_BR
dc.subject	spatial ability - adolescents	pt_BR
dc.subject	electroencephalography	pt_BR
dc.title	The role of frontal and parietal cortex in the performance of gifted and average adolescents in a mental rotation task	pt_BR
dc.type	article	pt_BR