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Rule Acquisition in the Proceeding of Heuristic Sudoku Solving

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Brain Informatics (BI 2012)

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To investigate how human brain was involved in explicit rule acquisition during problem solving, with the technique of fMRI, we used a task of simplified Sudoku solving to detect the change of brain activity from a freshman to a rule-acquired solver. Brain activities in the lateral prefrontal, inferior parietal and anterior cingulated cortex increased suggested a goal-directed processing with more accurate representation of problem state and more efficient rule retrieval. The decrease deactivation in the medial prefrontal gyrus might relate to a reduced resource allocation in the later stage; and the signal change pattern of first increasing then decreasing in the superior parietal gyrus might suggest a sensible response for attention to visual perception and recognition during the proceeds.

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  1. International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China

    Haiyan Zhou, Yukun Xiong, Zhoujun Long, Sanxia Fan, Xuyan Wang, Yulin Qin & Ning Zhong

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, China

    Haiyan Zhou, Yukun Xiong, Zhoujun Long, Sanxia Fan, Xuyan Wang, Yulin Qin & Ning Zhong

  3. Dept. of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    Yulin Qin

  4. Dept. of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

    Ning Zhong

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  1. Department of Enterprise Engineering, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Viale del Politecnico, 1, 00133, Roma, Italy

    Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

  2. Department of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, 89-1 Enya-cho, 693-8501, Izumo-city, Shimane, Japan

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  3. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 9, 9747 AG, Groningen, Netherlands

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  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, S4S 0A2, Regina, SK, Canada

    Yiyu Yao

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Zhou, H. et al. (2012). Rule Acquisition in the Proceeding of Heuristic Sudoku Solving. In: Zanzotto, F.M., Tsumoto, S., Taatgen, N., Yao, Y. (eds) Brain Informatics. BI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35139-6_8

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