Higher engagement was found in cognitive and metacognitive processes.
Altered functional connectivity was found in cognitive cerebral networks, such as executive control network, default mode network, visual network.
In addition, one would like to see a better integration of all this work with the work on cognitive styles that is found in cognitive psychology and mathematical education.
Besides the common sense, motivations for this assumption can be found in cognitive science studies, which have shown the tendency of people to shift their attention and interest, rather than behave incrementally [40], and in associating the interest for a topic to the time spent dealing with that topic (studying, experimenting, etc).
If you are unfamiliar with the word, read up on the definition of cognitive as to be found in "cognitive science" and it may be your first step toward understanding the scientific language of the mind and brain sciences.
This effect (referred to as Gratton effect) has been found in earlier cognitive Stroop experiments [60], [62] [64], in the original report on the emotional conflict paradigm [32] and in our control group.
Ceiling effects have been found in the cognitive functioning, pain, and health transition scales of the MOS-HIV in HIV-infected patients with more advanced HIV disease [ 35].
Before, frequency-dependent changes in the ALFF have been found in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and schizophrenia [ 27, 28].
Likewise, in relatives of schizophrenia patients, alterations have been found in networks of various cognitive domains [ 28] and in particular of the attention systems [ 29- 31].
