Differences between child and adult large-scale functional brain networks for reading tasks.

ABSTRACT: Reading is an important high-level cognitive function of the human brain, requiring interaction among multiple brain regions. Revealing differences between children's large-scale functional brain networks for reading tasks and those of adults helps us to understand how the functional network changes over reading development. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging data of 17 adults (19-28 years old) and 16 children (11-13 years old), and graph theoretical analyses to investigate age-related changes in large-scale functional networks during rhyming and meaning judgment tasks on pairs of visually presented Chinese characters. We found that: (1) adults had stronger inter-regional connectivity and nodal degree in occipital regions, while children had stronger inter-regional connecti

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6866543 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature