A recent study employing the color-word Stroop task proposed that preference for Object-Spatial-Verbal cognitive style is associated with cognitive control. Based on this finding, the present study aims to find that the same cognitive style has an inf...
A recent study employing the color-word Stroop task proposed that preference for Object-Spatial-Verbal cognitive style is associated with cognitive control. Based on this finding, the present study aims to find that the same cognitive style has an influence on task-switching processes. In doing so, a task-switching including the object and verbal tasks was employed, and cognitive preference scores were obtained. The neural responses were recorded by fMRI. Cognitive style preference scores, behavioral switch cost, and neural switch cost were used for analysis. For the behavioral results, in the switched condition from verbal to object task, the more prefer verbal style the higher behavioral switch costs were observed. However, the neural results identified a positive relationship between preference for object style and the neural switch cost in PCC/Precuneus and left IPS. In addition, an interaction between both cognitive style preferences was found in the same condition in angular gyrus. These findings indicated that preference for cognitive style is related to attentional resource allocation, selection and processing of target-relevant information. It suggests that preference for cognitive style is associated with cognitive control during task-switching. In the verbal task, there was no relationship between task-switching performance and cognitive style preference.