Functional MRI responses to naturalistic stimuli are increasingly typical across early childhood.

ABSTRACT: While findings show that throughout development, there are child- and age-specific patterns of brain functioning, there is also evidence for significantly greater inter-individual response variability in young children relative to adults. It is currently unclear whether this increase in functional "typicality" (i.e., inter-individual similarity) is a developmental process that occurs across early childhood, and what changes in BOLD response may be driving changes in typicality. We collected fMRI data from 81 typically developing 4-8-year-old children during passive viewing of age-appropriate television clips and asked whether there is increasing typicality of brain response across this age range. We found that the "increasing typicality" hypothesis was supported across many regions engaged

SUBMITTER: Tansey R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10275704 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature