As far as the multiplicity of explanations that have been made for aI activations over the past several years, some of these are plausibly subsumed under these more general processing ideas.
There is an ongoing debate as to whether the deficits are caused by stimulus-specific impairments related purely to faces, or by more general processing impairments, which affect multiple domains and apply to a broader range of stimuli.
In particular, we wanted to find out whether differentiation of processing characteristics into parietal magnitude-related as compared to (pre)frontal, more general processing demands would be feasible.
Thus, the greater activation for identical pairs seems to be rather specific to the processing of stress information itself than to reflect more general processes associated with a higher level of working memory and/or attentional demands.
This assumption would nicely fit with the findings from Walter et al. [ 35] indicating that activation of the DMPFC is not related to specific processes such as the processing of erotic content, but rather to more general processes like attention.
If the aim is to make an addressee change a usual way of problem solving (more general: of processing information), the shortest detour appears to be publicity.
In addition, this region was functionally connected with a host of more general information processing areas, including the left inferior frontal gyrus, the left perirhinal cortex, and the superior frontal gyrus bilaterally (see Supplemental Table 2 for complete list).
This indicates that this difference in response time slope values between the modalities is notspecific to numerosity judgment and originates from a more general difference in processing of information.
To the extent that the reading deficits observed in the present case series are underpinned by a more general visual processing deficit, we would expect to see deficits in the recognition of other familiar but non-orthographic visual objects.
It is a matter of an ongoing and intense debate whether the impairment is only restricted to the processing of faces, or whether it is accompanied by more general deficits of visual processing.
