Shared functional connections within and between cortical networks predict cognitive abilities in adult males and females.

ABSTRACT: A thorough understanding of sex-independent and sex-specific neurobiological features that underlie cognitive abilities in healthy individuals is essential for the study of neurological illnesses in which males and females differentially experience and exhibit cognitive impairment. Here, we evaluate sex-independent and sex-specific relationships between functional connectivity and individual cognitive abilities in 392 healthy young adults (196 males) from the Human Connectome Project. First, we establish that sex-independent models comparably predict crystallised abilities in males and females, but only successfully predict fluid abilities in males. Second, we demonstrate sex-specific models comparably predict crystallised abilities within and between sexes, and generally fail to predict f

SUBMITTER: Dhamala E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8764478 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature