Maturation of Brain Regions Related to the Default Mode Network during Adolescence Facilitates Narrative
Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus1,2,3,4, Rola Farah1, Ardag Hajinazarian2,3,4
1Educational Neuroimaging Center, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion, Israel.
Objectives:
Although the Default Mode Network (DMN) has been examined extensively in adults, developmental characteristics of this network during childhood are not fully understood.
Methods:
In this longitudinal study, we characterized the developmental changes in the DMN in fifteen children who were each scanned three times during a narrative comprehension task using magnetic resonance imaging.
Results:
Despite similar brain-activation patterns along developmental ages 5 to 18 years when listening to stories, increased, widely distributed deactivation of the DMN was observed in children between the ages of 11 and 18 years. Our findings suggest that changes occurring with increased age, primarily brain maturation and cognitive development drive deactivation of the DMN, which in turn might facilitate attendance to the task.
Conclusions:
The interpretation of our results is as a possible reference for the typical course of deactivation of the DMN and to explain the impaired patterns in this neural network associated with different language-related pathologies.
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