Distinct functional and structural connections predict crystallised and fluid cognition in healthy adults.

ABSTRACT: White matter pathways between neurons facilitate neuronal coactivation patterns in the brain. Insight into how these structural and functional connections underlie complex cognitive functions provides an important foundation with which to delineate disease-related changes in cognitive functioning. Here, we integrate neuroimaging, connectomics, and machine learning approaches to explore how functional and structural brain connectivity relate to cognition. Specifically, we evaluate the extent to which functional and structural connectivity predict individual crystallised and fluid cognitive abilities in 415 unrelated healthy young adults (202 females) from the Human Connectome Project. We report three main findings. First, we demonstrate functional connectivity is more predictive of cognitiv

SUBMITTER: Dhamala E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8193532 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature