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- Title
Scholastic performance and functional connectivity of brain networks in children.
- Authors
Chaddock-Heyman, Laura; Weng, Timothy B.; Kienzler, Caitlin; Erickson, Kirk I.; Voss, Michelle W.; Drollette, Eric S.; Raine, Lauren B.; Kao, Shih-Chun; Hillman, Charles H.; Kramer, Arthur F.
- Abstract
One of the keys to understanding scholastic success is to determine the neural processes involved in school performance. The present study is the first to use a whole-brain connectivity approach to explore whether functional connectivity of resting state brain networks is associated with scholastic performance in seventy-four 7- to 9-year-old children. We demonstrate that children with higher scholastic performance across reading, math and language have more integrated and interconnected resting state networks, specifically the default mode network, salience network, and frontoparietal network. To add specificity, core regions of the dorsal attention and visual networks did not relate to scholastic performance. The results extend the cognitive role of brain networks in children as well as suggest the importance of network connectivity in scholastic success.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC ability; BRAIN physiology; PEDIATRIC physiology; COGNITIVE ability; EVOKED potentials (Electrophysiology)
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2018, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0190073