ISSN : 1226-9654
Cognitive control involves the human ability to attend to relevant information and ignore irrelevant information from environmental inputs. The present study examined neural mechanisms involved in cognitive control for relevant or irrelevant information related to individual cognitive style. Based on the Object-Spatial-Verbal cognitive style questionnaire scores, participants were divided into two preference groups, Spatializers and Verbalizers. The task included two versions of spatial Stroop tasks that required both ignoring spatial distracter while attending to a verbal target (the Word task) or an object target, respectively. Although there was no difference in the behavioral Stroop effects in either task between the two groups, imaging results demonstrated an increase in the neural Stroop effect in the right frontopolar cortex and right superior temporal sulcus for Spatializers compared to Verbalizers during the Word task, with greater activation in the left lingual gyrus and left parahippocampal/fusiform gyrus for Verbalizers compared to Spatializers during the Object task. In addition, functional connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and task-related regions showed group differences in the neural Stroop effect. The current results provide further evidence that individuals appear to use different strategies for cognitive control processes according to their preferential cognitive style.
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