Under Hostage-Rescue Condition and Long-Range Condition, shooters perceived greater pressure, yet the shooting score improved only under Hostage-Rescue Condition. Intra-lobar functional connectivity strengthened, whereas connectivity between the frontal lobe and other lobes was suppressed. Nodal clustering coefficients increased in vision-related regions but decreased in semantically related regions. These changes indicate that, when confronting Hostage-rescue and Long-Range Conditions, the brain achieves adaptive regulation by redistributing neural resources to optimize information-processing efficiency.
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