Training in the Adolescent Brain: An FMRI Training Study on Divergent Thinking

Autor/inn/en	Kleibeuker, Sietske W.; Stevenson, Claire E.; van der Aar, Laura; Overgaauw, Sandy; van Duijvenvoorde, Anna C.; Crone, Eveline A.
Titel	Training in the Adolescent Brain: An FMRI Training Study on Divergent Thinking
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 53 (2017) 2, S.353-365 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000239
Schlagwörter	Training; Brain; Adolescents; Creative Thinking; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Correlation; Diagnostic Tests; Visual Aids; Case Studies; Short Term Memory; Pretests Posttests; Statistical Analysis; Creativity; Foreign Countries; Regression (Statistics); Children; Intelligence Tests; Neurology; Netherlands; Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Gehirn; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Kreatives Denken; Korrelation; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Anschauungsmaterial; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Statistische Analyse; Kreativität; Ausland; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Child; Kind; Kinder; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Neurologie; Niederlande
Abstract	Prior research suggests that adolescence is a time of enhanced sensitivity for practice and learning. In this study we tested the neural correlates of divergent thinking training in 15- to 16-year-old adolescents relative to an age-matched active control group. All participants performed an alternative uses task, a valid measure to test divergent thinking, while functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) images were acquired before and after a training program. In between the 2 scanning sessions the experimental group completed 2 weeks of divergent thinking training (8 sessions) and the control group completed 2 weeks of rule switching training (8 session). A Group × Time interaction demonstrated stable divergent thinking performance for the experimental group, whereas in the control group performance declined. Generating alternative uses (experimental task condition) relative to generating ordinary characteristics of objects (control task condition) was associated with increased activation in the supramarginal gyrus (SMG), angular gyrus (AG), and middle temporal gyrus (MTG). Test-retest analyses showed that within-individuals-activation in these regions was stable over time in both groups. Changes in alternative uses fluency over time, however, were positively associated with changes in superior lateral PFC activation over time. Together, the results indicate that core brain regions for creativity (SMG, AG, and MTG) are consistently recruited in adolescence, and that changes in performance are associated with changes in activation in lateral PFC. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01