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80| Cognitive Reserve – A Conversation With Dr. Yaakov Stern

Navigating Neuropsychology

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Compensation and Neural Networks

The idea of compensation is that some people compensate by recruiting extra brain areas to do a task better than others. In fMRI studies, researchers looked for networks that are activated no matter what the task is and allows some people to do it well. They called this "neural reserve" The ideas of capacity and efficiency were more just sort of not compensation, but just normal differences that people might have in how they perform tasks.

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