in small-worldness indicated that the topological organization of the functional brain networks developed in healthy children to promote an optimal balance between segregation and integration for robust and dynamic information processing in the human brain [71]. Notably, statistical comparisons were not made in the small-world properties by either Fair et al. (2009) or Fransson et al. (2011), and Supekar et al. (2009) made comparisons at a single edge density (cost threshold, t = 0.54). Thus, this study, which statistically analyzed the summary global network parameters calculated from the small-world regime (0.2≤t≤0.35), provided evidence for the age-related differences in the economical small-world properties of the whole-brain functional networks in healthy children.
