Fig. 7. High multidimensional mediation results.

a Mediation results of the common EF factor. b Mediation results of the shifting-specific factor. A significant mediation effect was found for the common EF component, but not for the shifting-specific component. The brain figure was visualized by the BrainNet Viewer¹²³ under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). VIE   variance indirect effect, VDE   variance direct effect, PVM   proportion of the variance mediated. The solid arrows indicate significant coefficients and dashed arrows indicate non-significant coefficients. Correction for multiple comparisons was performed with the FDR-BH. One-sided permutation test.