Time-lagged associations between cognitive and cortical development from childhood to early adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Throughout childhood and adolescence, humans experience marked changes in cortical structure and cognitive ability. Cortical thickness and surface area, in particular, have been associated with cognitive ability. Here we ask the question: What are the time-related associations between cognitive changes and cortical structure maturation. Identifying a developmental sequence requires multiple measurements of these variables from the same individuals across time. This allows capturing relations among the variables and, thus, finding whether (a) developmental cognitive changes follow cortical structure maturation, (b) cortical structure maturation follows cognitive changes, or (c) both processes influence each other over time. Four hundred and thiry children and adolescents (age range = 6.01-2

SUBMITTER: Estrada E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6533129 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature