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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 8.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2010 Apr 8;20(2):242–250. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.03.002

Figure 1. A trend toward increasing use of individual differences measures in executive control cognitive neuroscience research over the past 10 years.

Figure 1

The graph illustrates a shift from proportionally fewer individual difference studies early in the decade to a proportionally larger number of individual difference studies over the last several years. The blue line illustrates individual difference studies of the neural basis of executive control, while the red line illustrates such research not including individual difference terms (see below). The publication data were normalized by dividing the number of publications per year by the total number of publications (between 1999 and 2009) in each category.

Source: Scopus. Search used: (“individual differences” OR IQ OR PERSONALITY OR “individual variability”) AND (“cognitive control” OR “executive control” OR “working memory” OR “response inhibition” OR attention) AND (fMRI OR MRI OR ERP OR EEG OR PET OR MEG OR TMS)