Large-scale brain networks in board game experts: insights from a domain-related task and task-free resting state.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive performance relies on the coordination of large-scale networks of brain regions that are not only temporally correlated during different tasks, but also networks that show highly correlated spontaneous activity during a task-free state. Both task-related and task-free network activity has been associated with individual differences in cognitive performance. Therefore, we aimed to examine the influence of cognitive expertise on four networks associated with cognitive task performance: the default mode network (DMN) and three other cognitive networks (central-executive network, dorsal attention network, and salience network). During fMRI scanning, fifteen grandmaster and master level Chinese chess players (GM/M) and fifteen novice players carried out a Chinese chess task and a task

SUBMITTER: Duan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3299676 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature