Whole-brain white matter organization, intelligence, and educational attainment.

ABSTRACT: General cognitive ability, sometimes referred to as intelligence, is associated with educational attainment throughout childhood. Most studies that have explored the neural correlates of intelligence in childhood focus on individual brain regions. This analytical approach is designed to identify restricted sets of voxels that overlap across participants. By contrast, we explored the relationship between white matter connectome organization, intelligence, and education. In both a sample of typically-developing children (N = 63) and a sample of struggling learners (N = 139), the white matter connectome efficiency was strongly associated with intelligence and educational attainment. Further, intelligence partially mediated the relationship between connectome efficiency and educational attainm

SUBMITTER: Bathelt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6556839 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature