NIRS evaluates the thinking process of Mushi-kuizan task

Hideo Eda; Yasufumi Kuroda; Naoko Okamoto; Takanori Maesako

doi:10.1117/12.762310

8 February 2008 NIRS evaluates the thinking process of Mushi-kuizan task

Hideo Eda, Yasufumi Kuroda, Naoko Okamoto, Takanori Maesako

Proceedings Volume 6850, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging III; 685002 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762310
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We discuss the possibility of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) application to the educational research. NIRS system was used for prefrontal cortex measurement of children, when they were solving Mushi-kuizan problems. The Mushi-kuizan task is one of the mathematical puzzles. Subjects were four children in fifth grade. Hemoglobin parameters such as oxygenated hemoglobin and deoxygenated hemoglobin were calculated during Mushi-kuizan problems. The parameters were compared with the performance data of each subject. Changes Hb parameters described how children use their brain. NIRS evaluated the thinking process of mathematics task. It is very useful for mathematics teachers to catch the children's thinking process dynamically because they can consider the way of teaching for each child. It was shown that NIRS may be able to apply to education.

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Hideo Eda, Yasufumi Kuroda, Naoko Okamoto, and Takanori Maesako "NIRS evaluates the thinking process of Mushi-kuizan task", Proc. SPIE 6850, Multimodal Biomedical Imaging III, 685002 (8 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762310

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