Slagter Heleen A, Bouwer Fleur L
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL.
Institute for Brain and Behavior, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL.
J Cogn. 2021 Aug 27;4(1):49. doi: 10.5334/joc.170. eCollection 2021.
Individual differences in cognitive performance can be quantitative or qualitative in nature. Accounting for qualitative as well as quantitative individual differences is of importance for cognitive neuroscience, where a central goal is not only to relate brain function to behavior generally, but also to understand and predict individual behavior from neural data. In turn, cognitive neuroscience can help determine the nature of individual differences by revealing the underlying neural mechanisms and uncover qualitative individual differences that are not immediately apparent from behavioral data, enhancing our understanding of why and how people behave the way they do.
认知表现的个体差异在本质上可以是定量的或定性的。考虑定性和定量的个体差异对于认知神经科学很重要，在认知神经科学中，一个核心目标不仅是将大脑功能与一般行为联系起来，而且是从神经数据中理解和预测个体行为。反过来，认知神经科学可以通过揭示潜在的神经机制来帮助确定个体差异的本质，并发现行为数据中不立即明显的定性个体差异，从而增强我们对人们为何以及如何以他们的方式行事的理解。
