Lower engagement of cognitive control in children on ChatGPT.

Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus^1,2,3,4,5, Yoed N Kenett^3,6, Dafna Link-Sourani^2,3, Emeel Ashqar^2,3, Rola Farah¹

¹Educational Neuroimaging Group, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 3200003, Israel.

²Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 3200003, Israel.

³May-Blum-Dahl Technion Human MRI Research Center (TecHMRC), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 3200003, Israel.

⁴Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States.

⁵Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.

⁶Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 3200003, Israel.

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Abstract

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can scaffold idea generation, but how it engages control, attention, and memory systems in the developing versus mature brain, and how this relates to creativity, remains unclear. We compared 6-7-yr-old children and adults during a naturalistic 5-min co-creative dialog with ChatGPT using the same prompt, in-scanner conversation, undergoing functional magneti…

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