Chunk #15 — Results — Spring-embedded visualization in combination with functional connectivity suggests that regions are linked more locally in childhood and are more distributed in adulthood
A group of regions in the frontal cortex provides a particularly salient example of segregation. Frontal cortex contains regions that, in adults, are members of each of the task-control networks (e.g., dlPFC, frontal, dACC/msFC) and the default network (e.g., vmPFC, amPFC). As can be seen in Figure 2A (and Video S1), extensive correlations exist between most of these frontal regions in childhood (see blue cloud Figure 2A). Over the developmental window afforded by the current dataset, some of these strong “frontal-frontal” correlations begin to weaken. With increasing age, regions in the frontal cluster segregate into 3 separate functional networks.
