Sulcal variability in anterior lateral prefrontal cortex contributes to variability in reasoning performance among young adults.

ABSTRACT: Identifying structure-function correspondences is a major goal among biologists, cognitive neuroscientists, and brain mappers. Recent studies have identified relationships between performance on cognitive tasks and the presence or absence of small, shallow indentations, or sulci, of the human brain. Building on the previous finding that the presence of one such sulcus in the left anterior lateral prefrontal cortex (aLPFC) was related to reasoning task performance in children and adolescents, we tested whether this relationship extended to a different sample, age group, and reasoning task. As predicted, the presence of this aLPFC sulcus-the ventral para-intermediate frontal sulcus-was also associated with higher reasoning scores in young adults (ages 22-36). These findings have not only dir

SUBMITTER: Willbrand EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9934691 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature