Neural Signatures of AI-Assisted Cognition: EEG Profiles of AI Users and Non-Users and Implications for Brain Chemistry and Structure

This review combines EEG and fMRI studies of cognitive task completion with and without generative AI from the standpoint of the recent MIT “Your Brain on ChatGPT” study. Next, the results of these studies are used to make an inference about brain chemistry and brain structure through PET, MRS, and MRI/DTI studies of reward system functioning and intensive use of technological gadgets. The newly released OpenNeuro dataset ds008496 that provides EEG data collected when writing essays in conditions of interaction with various AI systems becomes the next step of this research line.