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A Review of Individual Differences in Neural Efficiency Focused on Cognitive Style and Task-Related Features
Abstract
Neural efficiency is a characteristic of the brain tending to process given information with a minimum amount of the neural resources. It has been difficult to integrate the results from the various studies related to neural efficiency since observed patterns of the neural efficiency were different between the studies. These previous studies tried to explain these different patterns based on the variables such as intelligence, gender, age, cognitive style, and so on. The present study reviews the related studies, focusing on the cognitive style and the task-related features. Some of the studies reported that brain regions, showing the neural efficiency, varied depending on the stimulus modalities included in the tasks. Furthermore, the brain regions which were directly engaged in the task-related processes and the other regions showed different activation patterns depending on the task difficulty. We propose the possibility that the individual differences in the patterns of neural efficiency could be explained not only by intelligence, sex, or age, but also by individuals’ preferences on the cognitive styles. In conclusion, this review suggests that it is important to consider the stimulus modalities and task difficulty in order to draw consistent results in a relevant studies, and that the individual differences in the neural efficiency could be explained in terms of cognitive style.
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- 신경효율성, 인지양식, 과제 자극 양상, 과제 난이도, neural efficiency, cognitive style, stimulus modality, task difficulty
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