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T1 Developmental grey matter changes in superior parietal cortex accompany improved transitive reasoning
A1 Modroño Pascual, Cristian David
A1 Navarrete García, Gorka
A1 Nicolle, Antoinette
A1 González Mora, José Luis
A1 Smith, Kathleen W.
A1 Marling, Miriam
A1 Goel, Vinod
A2 Departamento de Ciencias Médicas Básicas
A2 Neuroquímica y neuroimagen
K1 Neurofisiología
K1 Cortex parietal
AB The neural basis of developmental changes in transitive reasoning in parietalregions was examined, using voxel-based morphometry. Young adolescentsand adults performed a transitive reasoning task, subsequent to undergoinganatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans. Behaviorally, adultsreasoned more accurately than did the young adolescents. Neural resultsshowed (i) less grey matter density in superior parietal cortex in the adultsthan in the young adolescents, possibly due to a developmental period ofsynaptic pruning; (ii) improved performance in the reasoning task was negativelycorrelated with grey matter density in superior parietal cortex in theadolescents, but not in the adult group; and (iii) the latter results were drivenby the more difficult trials, requiring greater spatial manipulation. Takentogether, the results support the idea that during development, regions insuperior parietal cortex are fine-tuned, to support more robust spatial manipulation,resulting in greater accuracy and efficiency in transitive reasoning.
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NO Publicado (Open access) en: https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2018.1481144
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 19-abr-2024