Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Neuroimaging evidence for a network sampling theory of individual differences in human intelligence test performance

  • Eyal Soreq,
  • Ines R. Violante,
  • Richard E. Daws,
  • Adam Hampshire

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22199-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

Read online

A defining human characteristic is the ability to perform diverse cognitively challenging tasks. The authors show that this adaptability relates to a network sampling mechanism, where brain-wide network states transiently blend the unique combinations of neural resources required by different tasks.