Development and sex modulate visuospatial oscillatory dynamics in typically-developing children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Visuospatial processing is a cognitive function that is critical to navigating one's surroundings and begins to develop during infancy. Extensive research has examined visuospatial processing in adults, but far less work has investigated how visuospatial processing and the underlying neurophysiology changes from childhood to early adolescence, which is a critical period of human development that is marked by the onset of puberty. In the current study, we examined behavioral performance and the oscillatory dynamics serving visuospatial processing using magnetoencephalography (MEG) in a cohort of 70 children and young adolescents aged 8-15 years. All participants performed a visuospatial processing task during MEG, and the resulting oscillatory responses were imaged using a beamformer and pr

SUBMITTER: Killanin AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7779241 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature