Abstract #3008
The difference of neural correlates of text comprehension between with and without picture: fMRI study
Jang Woo Park 1 , Sungmook Choi 2 , Yang-Tae Kim 3 , Jeehye Seo 1 , Seong-Uk Jin 1 , Mun Han 1 , Kyung Eun Jang 1 , Kyung Jin Suh* 4 , and Yongmin Chang* 5
1
Department of Medical & Biological
Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Daegu,
Korea,
2
Department
of English Education, Kyungpook National University,
Daegu, Korea,
3
Department
of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Keimyung University,
Daegu, Korea,
4
Department
of Radiology, College of Medicine, Dongguk University,
Gyungju, Korea,
5
Department
of Molecular Medicine and Radiology, School of Medicine,
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
In recent decades, several behavioral research studies
have demonstrated that use of text-congruous
illustrations help to reading comprehension, whereas use
of text-incongruous illustrations leads to unfavorable
outcomes. However, the neural underpinning of such
text-illustration effects is still poorly understood.
This study performed fMRI for comparison of the brain
activity while 30 Korean female university students read
45 short passages in English with text only and with
text-congruous and text-incongruous illustrations. The
result of this study show that text-congruous
illustrations increase brain areas of attention,
motivation, and reward, but text-incongruous
illustrations reduce reader's attention and motivation
to read text.
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