What do neuroanatomical networks reveal about the ontology of human cognitive abilities?

ABSTRACT: Over the last decades, cognitive psychology has come to a fair consensus about the human intelligence ontological structure. However, it remains an open question whether anatomical properties of the brain support the same ontology. The present study explored the ontological structure derived from neuroanatomical networks associated with performance on 15 cognitive tasks indicating various abilities. Results suggest that the brain-derived (neurometric) ontology partly agrees with the cognitive performance-derived (psychometric) ontology complemented with interpretable differences. Moreover, the cortical areas associated with different inferred abilities are segregated, with little or no overlap. Nevertheless, these spatially segregated cortical areas are integrated via denser white matter s

SUBMITTER: Kristanto D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9293763 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature