IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/lnichp/978-3-319-18702-0_15.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

An Evolutionary Explanation of Graph Comprehension Using fMRI

In: Information Systems and Neuroscience

Author

Listed:
  • Roozmehr Safi

    (College of Business)

  • Eric Walden

    (College of Business)

  • Gabriel Cogo

    (College of Business)

  • David Lucus

    (College of Business)

  • Elshan Moradiabadi

    (College of Business)

Abstract

Evolution has equipped Homo sapiens with a wide range of inherent abilities. One of those abilities is comprehending graphical representations. We claim that comprehension is only inherent if the representation has an analogy in the evolutionary environment. We test this using a fMRI study to show that certain graphs activate the visual cortex and others do not. Furthermore those that activate the visual cortex result in greater accuracy.

Suggested Citation

  • Roozmehr Safi & Eric Walden & Gabriel Cogo & David Lucus & Elshan Moradiabadi, 2015. "An Evolutionary Explanation of Graph Comprehension Using fMRI," Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization, in: Fred D. Davis & René Riedl & Jan vom Brocke & Pierre-Majorique Léger & Adriane B. Randolph (ed.), Information Systems and Neuroscience, edition 127, pages 117-122, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnichp:978-3-319-18702-0_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18702-0_15
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    fMRI; Graphicacy; Evolution;
    All these keywords.

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:lnichp:978-3-319-18702-0_15. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.