Table 2 Prediction of exam scores from neural alignment in ROIs.

From: Neural alignment predicts learning outcomes in students taking an introduction to computer science course

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.)

  1. 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.
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