Chunk #11 — Results — Spring-embedded visualization in combination with functional connectivity suggests that regions are linked more locally in childhood and are more distributed in adulthood
Graph theory analyses were applied to 210 subjects, aged 7–31, to investigate the emergence of temporal correlations in spontaneous BOLD activity between regions of the default mode, cerebellar, and two task-control networks. For this initial analysis, average age-group matrices were created using a sliding boxcar grouping of subjects in age-order (i.e., group1: subjects 1–60, group2: subjects 2–61, group3: subjects 3–62, etc.). This generated a series of groups with average ages ranging from 8.48 years to 25.58 years. Each of the groups' average correlation matrices was converted into a graph, with correlations between regions greater than or equal to 0.1 considered as functionally connected.
