Structural Covariance Analysis Reveals Differences Between Dancers and Untrained Controls.

ABSTRACT: Dancers and musicians differ in brain structure from untrained individuals. Structural covariance (SC) analysis can provide further insight into training-associated brain plasticity by evaluating interregional relationships in gray matter (GM) structure. The objectives of the present study were to compare SC of cortical thickness (CT) between expert dancers, expert musicians and untrained controls, as well as to examine the relationship between SC and performance on dance- and music-related tasks. A reduced correlation between CT in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and mean CT across the whole brain was found in the dancers compared to the controls, and a reduced correlation between these two CT measures was associated with higher performance on a dance video game task. This

SUBMITTER: Karpati FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6167617 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature