Chunk #14 — Results — Spring-embedded visualization in combination with functional connectivity suggests that regions are linked more locally in childhood and are more distributed in adulthood
One of the primary observations from the movie relates to this anatomical-functional distinction. In children, regions appear to be largely arranged by anatomical proximity. This arrangement can be seen in Figure 2 and Video S1 where, in children, regions can be readily grouped by cerebral lobe (outline colors of spheres in Figure 2 and Video S1). Over age, as functional connections mature, the node arrangements change such that anatomically close regions are now largely distributed across the graph layout, in a pattern more aligned with the mature networks' functional properties (core colors of spheres in Figure 2) [21], [36]–[39]. Thus, across development, local clusters of regions “segregate” from one another and “integrate” into more distributed adult functional relationships with more distant regions.
