Gaze pattern differences during categorization of organisms between science gifted and general high school students

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Because category learning is related to the interaction between past plasticity related awareness of the limbic and slow plasticity related executive cognition of the cortex categorization is considered as an important factor in classification learning. Researchers have hypothesized that science high school students have more experience and knowledge of science in attention patterns compared to general high school students. To investigate this hypothesis this study analyzed the attention patterns of both science and general high school students during a classification task. Specifically this study examined the attention patterns of 9 science gifted high school students and 9 general high school students. Gaze pattern findings between the two groups of high school students showed both similarities and differences. During categorization science gifted school students appear to be using inductive strategies whereas general high school students appear to be utilizing deductive strategies. © 2017 International Information Institute.

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