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  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Accessing factual information is crucial for academic, professional, and social success.
  • Individual differences in semantic aptitude impact various life domains.
  • Understanding the neural underpinnings of semantic knowledge is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between individual differences in semantic aptitude and brain activity/connectivity.
  • To explore how executive functions influence semantic knowledge retrieval.
  • To identify specific brain regions and networks involved in semantic processing.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain activation during a semantic-retrieval task and resting-state functional connectivity.
  • Participants (N=41 for task, N=43 for resting-state) underwent psychometric and behavioral assessments of semantic and executive capacities.
  • A general-knowledge semantic-retrieval task involved accessing facts from diverse domains (people, places, objects, scholastic).

Main Results:

  • Higher executive capacity correlated with increased activation in anterior prefrontal cortex (PFC) and precuneus during semantic tasks.
  • Lower semantic capacity was associated with stronger activation in a posterior section of the dorsomedial PFC (dmPFC).
  • Resting-state connectivity analysis revealed that increased connectivity between left anterior PFC and precuneus predicted higher semantic aptitude, while connectivity between left anterior PFC and posterior dmPFC predicted lower semantic aptitude.

Conclusions:

  • Coordination between the precuneus and anterior prefrontal regions, particularly those involved in executive control, supports enhanced semantic aptitude.
  • Brain regions associated with executive functions play a critical role in accessing and retrieving complex factual information.
  • Functional connectivity patterns during rest can predict individual differences in semantic abilities.