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Bridging cognitive neuroscience and education: Insights from EEG recording during mathematical proof evaluation

Authors: Venera Gashaj,Dragan Trninić,Cléa Formaz,Samuel Tobler,Juan Sebastián Gómez‑Cañón,Hanna Poikonen,Manu Kapur
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Publish date: 2024-6
ISSN: 2211-9493 DOI: 10.1016/j.tine.2024.100226
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The study found that students rated symbolic proofs as more familiar and understandable than non-symbolic proofs, yet EEG data revealed no significant differences in neural processing (e.g., gamma/beta oscillations) between the two formats. How might this dissociation between subjective experience and objective neural measures challenge existing assumptions about the cognitive advantages of non-symbolic reasoning in mathematics education?

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