Montessori students show higher activation than traditionally-schooled students in occipital, parietal and medial prefrontal regions regardless of response correctness¶

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q3 i? Independent of response type, Montessori students showed increased activation of left occipital cortex, right cuneus, right superior parietal lobule and medial prefrontal cortex relative to traditionally-schooled students. → Denervaud 2020

Evidence¶

Denervaud 2020¶

Denervaud, S., Fornari, E., Yang, X.-F., Hagmann, P., Immordino-Yang, M. H., & Sander, D. (2020). An fMRI study of error monitoring in Montessori and traditionally-schooled children. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-020-0069-6

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Main effect of pedagogy in the second-level ANOVA of fMRI activation: Montessori students showed "increased activation of the left occipital cortex and right cuneus", plus right superior parietal lobule and medial prefrontal cortex, some extending into left ACC.

"regardless of whether the response was correct or incorrect, relative to the traditionally-schooled students, the Montessori students showed increased activation of the left occipital cortex and right cuneus (Fig. 4 top panel, and Table 2B), and contralateral regions at trend-level; the right superior parietal lobule; and the medial prefrontal cortex"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Functional connectivity after correct versus incorrect responses differs by pedagogy: ACC–hippocampus in traditional students after correct trials, ACC–frontal connectivity in Montessori students after incorrect trials — related
• Montessori students miss fewer trials but make more incorrect responses than traditionally-schooled students at equivalent accuracy — related
• Montessori-schooled students show higher whole-brain system diversity (functional integration) than traditionally schooled students — related