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September 17, 2026Gifted Child Quarterly

Electrophysiological Evidence for Map-Based Perspective Taking and Wayfinding Efficiency in Taiwanese Gifted and General Students

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TDTsu-Jen DingHHHui‐Yu HsuCYChen-Yu Yao

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Comparative electrophysiological study reveals enhanced spatial perspective taking and frontoparietal neural efficiency in gifted students, suggesting optimized neural synchronization during map...

Key Points

  • Investigate the behavioral performance and underlying electrophysiological mechanisms of spatial perspective taking during map-based self-localization in gifted versus general high school students.
  • Administered a map-based self-localization task requiring alignment between egocentric (street-view) and allocentric (map-view) perspectives across 0° (south), 90° (east/west), and 180° (north) angular disparities to Taiwanese gifted and general high school students.
  • Recorded behavioral metrics (accuracy, reaction time) alongside electrophysiological measures, including event-related potential components (N200, P300 at POz, Fz, and Cz) and time–frequency delta oscillations.
  • Gifted students achieved significantly higher accuracy and shorter reaction times across the 90° and 180° angular disparity conditions, although 180° disparity elicited the poorest performance across both cohorts.
  • Electrophysiological analysis demonstrated significantly larger N200 and P300 amplitudes at fronto-parietal sites (Fz and POz) and increased delta oscillation power in gifted students, with no group differences detected at the central Cz electrode.

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Ding et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aabb6725f706d05830e4e34https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862261417990
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