Transition of the functional brain network related to increasing cognitive demands.

ABSTRACT: Network neuroscience provides tools that can easily be used to verify main assumptions of the global workspace theory (GWT), such as the existence of highly segregated information processing during effortless tasks performance, engagement of multiple distributed networks during effortful tasks and the critical role of long-range connections in workspace formation. A number of studies support the assumptions of GWT by showing the reorganization of the whole-brain functional network during cognitive task performance; however, the involvement of specific large scale networks in the formation of workspace is still not well-understood. The aims of our study were: (1) to examine changes in the whole-brain functional network under increased cognitive demands of working memory during an n-back tas

SUBMITTER: Finc K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6866963 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature