Assessing age-dependent multi-task functional co-activation changes using measures of task-potency.

ABSTRACT: It is being hypothesised that the developing adolescent brain is increasingly enlisting long-range connectivity, allowing improved communication between spatially distant brain regions. The developmental trajectories of such maturational changes remain elusive. Here, we aim to study how the brain engages in multiple tasks (working memory, reward processing, and inhibition) at the network-level and evaluate how effects of age across these tasks are related to each other. We characterise how the brain departs from its functional baseline architecture towards task-induced functional connectivity modulations using a novel measure called task potency, allowing direct comparison between tasks by defining sensitivity to one or multiple tasks. By applying this method in a sample of healthy partici

SUBMITTER: Chauvin RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6206256 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature