On how high performers keep cool brains in situations of cognitive overload
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What happens in the brain when we reach or exceed our capacity limits? Are there individual differences for performance at capacity limits? We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the impact of increases in processing demand on selected cortical areas when participants performed a parametrically varied and challenging dual task. Low-performing participants respond with large and load-dependent activation increases in many cortical areas when exposed to excessive task requirements, accompanied by decreasing performance. It seems that these participants recruit additional attentional and strategy-related resources with increasing difficulty, which are either not relevant or even detrimental to performance. In contrast, the brains of the high-performing participants "keep cool" in terms of activation changes, despite continuous correct performance, reflecting different and more efficient processing. These findings shed light on the differential implications of performance on activation patterns and underline the importance of the interindividual-differences approach in neuroimaging research.
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- Authors
- JAEGGI, S. M., BUSCHKUEHL, M., ETIENNE, A., OZDOBA, C., PERRIG, W. J., & NIRKKO, A. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Bern (CH)
- University of Neuchâtel (CH)
- University Hospital of Bern (CH)
- Corresponding author
- JAEGGI, S. M.
- Venue
- Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
- Published
- 2007-06-01
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 75-89
- ISSN
- 1530-7026 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-135X
- OpenAlex
- W2072707042
- Semantic Scholar
- b0b60f757ed9ccc1055cbb0bdf7ca3fac489c4f2
- Cited by
- 159
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 3.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- reroDoc Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- BORIS (University Library Bern) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Keywords
- cognitive overload, dual-task performance, individual differences in performance, brain activation patterns, processing demands, attentional resources, cognitive strategies, high performers, task difficulty
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Attention, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Oxygen, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Space Perception
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