Functional connectivity patterns predict naturalistic viewing versus rest across development
Sara Sanchez-Alonso1, Monica D Rosenberg2, Richard N Aslin3
1Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA.
Neuroimage
|January 5, 2021
Summary
Brain functional connectivity during movie watching and rest shows a stable core pattern, but specific network activity changes with age. This study reveals developmental differences in brain states for children and young adults.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience
Background:
- Cognitive states share intrinsic functional network organization with stable individual signatures.
- Transient, state-specific functional connectivity (FC) patterns vary across neural states.
- Understanding brain organization differences across developmental states is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine functional brain organization differences underlying distinct cognitive states (movie-watching vs. rest) in a developmental sample.
- To determine the comparability of brain-wide functional network organization during movie-watching and rest across development.
- To identify a core functional connectivity pattern robustly associated with naturalistic viewing that also exhibits developmental changes.
Main Methods:
- Compared FC fMRI data from 157 children and young adults (aged 6-20) during naturalistic movie-watching and resting-state paradigms.
- Developed a predictive model (PrimeNet) for multilevel neural effects to distinguish between movie-watching and rest states.
- Characterized FC patterns in the most predictive functional networks for each state and analyzed developmental variations.
Main Results:
- A widespread FC pattern reliably predicted movie-watching versus rest states, irrespective of age and generalizable across movies.
- Identified state-specific FC patterns that vary as a function of development.
- Highlighted a 'core' FC pattern robustly associated with naturalistic viewing that also changes across age.
Conclusions:
- A core functional connectivity pattern is robustly associated with naturalistic viewing and exhibits developmental changes.
- Movie-watching and rest states have distinct functional brain organization patterns that vary with age.
- This study provides a roadmap for quantifying state-specific functional neural organization across development, potentially revealing neurodevelopmental trajectory variations.
Keywords:
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