A₁
Precise
Speaker
ISTJ
℗
Sensitive
Mediator
INFP
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ISTP
INFJ
&
MBTI NEOCORTEX ACTIVITY
SOURCE: "NEUROSCIENCE OF PERSONALITY" BY DARIO NARDI, PH.D.
Table 4-1: Cognitive Skill-Sets Check List*
Region Skills
Fp1
Fp.2
Imaginative Mimic
Chief Judge Process Manager
Expert
Classifier
Deductive
Analyst
C3
Factual
Storekeeper
Tactical
Navigator
(P₂)
Visual
Engineer
CA
Flowing
Artist
Abstract
Impressionist
@
Grounded Behever
Strategic
Gamer
Figure 4-1: Sixteen cognitive skill-sets
identified in the neocortex using EEG.
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Intuitivel
Listener
Purposeful
Futurist
ESTJ
ENFP
ESTP
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ENFJ
©
F7
F3
F4
F8
T3
C3
14
C4
15
P3
P4
T6
01
02
Chief Judge: Focus on explaining, making decisiotis,
noting errors, and screening out distracting information.
Process Manager: Focus on process, either step-by-step.
for tasks, or open-ended creative brainstorming, or both.
Imaginative Mimic Mirror others' behavior,
by observing others, and make imaginative inferences.
pick up skills
Deductive Analyst: Follow a chain of logical deductions
and backtrack to correct thinking due to reasoning errors.
Expert Classifier: Accurately place concepts by testing
them against many categories at once to find a best fit,
Grounded Believer: Evaluate people and activities in terms
of like or dislike, and/or recall details with high accuracy.
Precise Speaker: Focus on content of the spoken word,
attend to proper grammar, usage, enunciation, and diction.
Factual Storekeeper: Easily memorize and execute steps
of movement (dance steps, etc.), and/or recall facts.
Intuitive Listener: Focus on voice tone and other affective
qualities of sound. Speak in a holistic way to influence,
Flowing Artist: Draw, paint, dance or otherwise use your
body in a flowing, spontaneous, and/or artistic manner.
Sensitive Mediator: Attend to how others respond to you
and alter your behavior to get more desirable results.
Tactical Navigator: Integrate physical space, motion, and
visual clues to move skillfully through the environment.
Strategic Gamer: Weigh many pros and cons, risks and un-
certainties at once in order to finesse complex situations.
Purposeful Futurist: State what will surely happen in the
future, and/or apply a symbolic meaning to a situation.
Visual Engineer Mentally rotate, measure, arrange,
assemble and explode objects with a focus on functionality.
Abstract Impressionist: Notice holistic themes, patterns,
and relationships in photos, paintings, and similar images.
ESFJ
ISFJ
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INTP
INTJ
ISFP
O
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ENTJ
ESFP
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