Individual Differences in Sustained Attention Tune Semantic Abstraction in Neural Encoding of Narratives
Shan Gao, Yuan Chang Leong, Monica D. Rosenberg
The paper investigates how individual differences in sustained attention affect neural semantic encoding of narratives using fMRI and LLM embeddings, finding that attention shifts representations toward gist-level formats.
bioRxiv · Oct 22, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience