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  • Social Cognition

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  • Teachers' ability to understand student intentions is crucial for effective teaching.
  • The cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying this ability remain underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the cognitive neural differences in intention understanding between expert and novice teachers.
  • To explore how teachers process students' normative and non-normative actions using event-related potentials (ERPs).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized event-related potential (ERP) technology.
  • Employed a comic strip paradigm with "how" and "why" text prompts.
  • Compared expert and novice teachers' processing of normative and non-normative student actions.

Main Results:

  • Expert teachers showed larger P300 and Late Positive Component (LPC) amplitudes in later processing stages.
  • Novice teachers exhibited larger N250 amplitudes in earlier processing stages.
  • Understanding normative actions primarily involved N250, while non-normative actions engaged P300 and LPC.

Conclusions:

  • Teachers at different professional stages exhibit distinct temporal processing patterns in intention understanding.
  • Findings support the link between teachers' social cognitive abilities and their brain's electrophysiological activity.
  • This study provides insights into the neural underpinnings of effective classroom interaction.