Table 2.
Prediction of exam scores from neural alignment in ROIs.
| Region of interest (ROI) | Lectures | Exam | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Same question" | "Knowledge structure" | ||||
| Corr. exam score and alignment-to-class | Corr. exam score and alignment-to-class | Corr. exam score and alignment-to-experts | Corr. exam score and alignment-to-class | Corr. exam score and alignment-to-experts | |
| Angular gyrus | 0.62** | 0.14* | 0.10 (n.s.) | 0.17* | −0.03 (n.s.) |
| Ant. cingulate (ACC) | 0.53** | 0.28** | 0.23** | 0.21** | 0.00 (n.s.) |
| Hippocampus | 0.75** | 0.16* | −0.06 (n.s.) | 0.13* | −0.09 (n.s.) |
| Post. sup. temporal gyrus | 0.40* | 0.25** | 0.17* | 0.23** | 0.05 (n.s.) |
| Precuneus | 0.61** | 0.10 (n.s.) | 0.18* | 0.03 (n.s.) | −0.06 (n.s.) |
| Amygdala | 0.29 (n.s.) | 0.06 (n.s.) | −0.03 (n.s.) | −0.04 (n.s.) | 0.07 (n.s.) |
| Early auditory | 0.46* | 0.07 (n.s.) | −0.02 (n.s.) | 0.01 (n.s.) | 0.08 (n.s.) |
| Early visual | 0.41* | 0.11 (n.s.) | 0.12 (n.s.) | 0.05 (n.s.) | −0.02 (n.s.) |
Correlation between spatial alignment measures and exam score during lectures and during the final exam. Results are shown in DMN ROIs as well as in control regions (text in italics) in sensory cortex (visual, intracalcarine cortex; auditory, Heschl’s gyrus) and subcortex (amygdala). See Supplementary Table 1 for correlation results obtained using alternative ways to calculate alignment-to-class. Asterisks denote significant correlation (one-sided permutation test, corrected across ROIs). *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, n.s. not significant.