Abstract
We investigated the neural bases of future imagination in science using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants were 10 science and engineering undergraduate students. Seven of them (70%) received sciencegifted education when they went through primary, middle, or high school, and all participants got good grade in science and engineering class. In the future imagination task, participants were asked to imagine the science relatedfuture based on the sentence. In the control task, participants were asked to read the science related sentence by eye. Analysis showed that future imagination task produced greater brain activation than control task in bilateralparahippocampal gyrus and fusiform gyrus (BA 37), bilateral temporal cortex (BA 39), left superior frontal cortex (BA 6), right prefrontal cortex (BA 46), bilateral cerebellum, and so on. These areas are involved in long term memory, generating visual mental image, integrating sensory information, spatial working memory, self-initiated retrieval and so on. Thus, our result suggest that future imagination process in science involves complex brain network. It could provide the brain scientific explanation for the meaning of the future imagination activities in science gifted education.
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