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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Understanding brain development is key to explaining cognitive and behavioral emergence.
  • Functional connectivity (FC) dynamics are crucial for brain function.
  • Early development involves significant changes in brain architecture.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the developmental trajectories of functional connectivity (FC) temporal variability in infants.
  • To examine FC dynamics at global, mesoscale, and local brain levels during the first two years of life.
  • To link FC development to emerging cognitive functions and behaviors.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a longitudinal resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) dataset.
  • Analyzed data from 51 typically developing infants.
  • Quantified temporal variability of FC architecture at global, system, and regional levels.

Main Results:

  • Whole-brain FC dynamics showed a linear increase over the first two postnatal years.
  • High-order functional systems exhibited increased within- and between-network FC dynamics.
  • Primary systems displayed decreased FC dynamics, while frontal regions showed heterogeneous increases.

Conclusions:

  • Infant brain connectivity becomes more dynamic and flexible during early development.
  • Globally increasing but locally heterogeneous FC trajectories support rapid cognitive development.
  • These dynamic changes in brain networks underpin the development of complex infant behaviors.