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fMRI-guided white matter connectivity in fluid and crystallized cognitive abilities in healthy adults.

Abstract：

:This study examined within-subject differences among three fluid abilities that decline with age: reasoning, episodic memory and processing speed, compared with vocabulary, a crystallized ability that is maintained with age. The data were obtained from the Reference Ability Neural Network (RANN) study from which 221 participants had complete behavioral data for all 12 cognitive tasks, three per ability, along with fMRI and diffusion weighted imaging data. We used fMRI task activation to guide white matter tractography, and generated mean percent signal change in the regions associated with the processing of each ability along with diffusion tensor imaging measures, fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD), for each cognitive ability. Qualitatively brain regions associated with vocabulary were more localized and lateralized to the left hemisphere whereas the fluid abilities were associated with brain activations that were more distributed across the brain and bilaterally situated. Using continuous age, we observed smaller correlations between MD and age for white matter tracts connecting brain regions associated with the vocabulary ability than that for the fluid abilities, suggesting that vocabulary white matter tracts were better maintained with age. Furthermore, after multiple comparisons correction and accounting for age, education, and sex, the mean percent signal change for episodic memory showed positive associations with behavioral performance. Overall, the vocabulary ability may be better maintained with age due to the more localized brain regions involved, which places smaller reliance on long distance white matter tracts for signal transduction. These results support the hypothesis that functional activation and white matter structures underlying the vocabulary ability contribute to the ability's greater resistance against aging.

journal_name

Neuroimage

journal_title

NeuroImage

authors

Gazes Y,Lee S,Sakhardande J,Mensing A,Razlighi Q,Ohkawa A,Pleshkevich M,Luo L,Habeck C

doi

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116809

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-07-15 00:00:00

pages

116809

eissn

1053-8119

issn

1095-9572

pii

S1053-8119(20)30296-2

journal_volume

215

pub_type

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fMRI-guided white matter connectivity in fluid and crystallized cognitive abilities in healthy adults.