Brain Mind and Body: Evidence on Personality and Brain Activities, Working Memory, and Attention

BRAIN MIND AND BODY

Contents
Section A.........................................................................................................................................2
Evidence about personality aspects that are related to brain activities........................................2
Section B..........................................................................................................................................2
Working memory.........................................................................................................................2
Attention......................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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Section A
Evidence about personality aspects that are related to brain activities
Research by Mulders and et.al., 2018 is based on profile of personality that are associated
with major functional network of brain which is related to emotion and cognition. In this
research independent components of factors of personality found in five-factor-model were
analysed and personality factors were measured by NEO-FFI in approximately 471 healthy
subjects through Human Connectome Project for investigating independent profiles of
personality that incorporated all main five factors of personality. In this research it was examined
that all the profiles are inter-related to resting-state brain activity patterns within a specific
networks-of-interest that are related to emotion and cognition. In this research it was found that
personality profiles of contrasting agreeableness and openness are related to prefrontal
subcortical-medial network engagement and prefrontal cortex dorsolateral. Similar to this, a
contrasting profile of conscientiousness and extraversion were found to be related to activity of
precuneus. This is one of the recent evidence and literature that outlines relation of personality
aspect and activity of brain. In this aspects of personality have been considered that are
developed in five-factor model and activities of brain have been considered of resting brain. This
research was done with 471 health subjects from the age 22-36 and this suggests that results of
this research are highly reliable. Challenges of this involves that association between patterns of
personality with temporal brain activity modes is highly significant effects sizes measured in this
were small. In addition to this limited ability for quantifying behaviour and measurement of
activities of brain are also included in challenges of this.
Section B
Working memory
Working memory is a small amount of data or information that can be easily stored or held
in mind and can be used for execution of cognitive task in contrast with long- term memory.
Working memory is one of the most commonly used cognition which is used by psychologist
(Engle, 2018). It is a kind of cognition system which is used by psychologist for storing or
holding information temporarily with limited capacity. It is extremely important for psychologist
for reasoning, providing guidance for behaviour and decision making. It is often used by
psychologist with patients with short- term memory as they think that working memory might
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