Neurodevelopment of the association cortices: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications for psychopathology

VJ Sydnor, B Larsen, DS Bassett, A Alexander-Bloch… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
The human brain undergoes a prolonged period of cortical development that spans multiple
decades. During childhood and adolescence, cortical development progresses from lower …

Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function

AS Keller, VJ Sydnor, A Pines, DA Fair… - Trends in cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
In this perspective, we describe how developmental improvements in youth executive
function (EF) are supported by hierarchically organized maturational changes in functional …

Shifting gradients of macroscale cortical organization mark the transition from childhood to adolescence

HM Dong, DS Margulies, XN Zuo… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The transition from childhood to adolescence is marked by pronounced shifts in brain
structure and function that coincide with the development of physical, cognitive, and social …

[HTML][HTML] Gradients in brain organization

BC Bernhardt, J Smallwood, S Keilholz, DS Margulies - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Complementary to the progress that has been made in the identification and mapping of
discrete brain areas (Amunts et al., 2020; Genon et al., 2021) and macroscopic functional …

Genetic and phylogenetic uncoupling of structure and function in human transmodal cortex

SL Valk, T Xu, C Paquola, B Park… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Brain structure scaffolds intrinsic function, supporting cognition and ultimately behavioral
flexibility. However, it remains unclear how a static, genetically controlled architecture …

The subcortical and neurochemical organization of the ventral and dorsal attention networks

PN Alves, SJ Forkel, M Corbetta… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Attention is a core cognitive function that filters and selects behaviourally relevant
information in the environment. The cortical mapping of attentional systems identified two …

Dissociable multi-scale patterns of development in personalized brain networks

AR Pines, B Larsen, Z Cui, VJ Sydnor… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The brain is organized into networks at multiple resolutions, or scales, yet studies of
functional network development typically focus on a single scale. Here, we derive …

Nonlinear manifold learning in functional magnetic resonance imaging uncovers a low‐dimensional space of brain dynamics

S Gao, G Mishne, D Scheinost - Human brain mapping, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale brain dynamics are believed to lie in a latent, low‐dimensional space. Typically,
the embeddings of brain scans are derived independently from different cognitive tasks or …

Test–retest reliability and predictive utility of a macroscale principal functional connectivity gradient

AR Knodt, ML Elliott, ET Whitman, A Winn… - Human Brain …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mapping individual differences in brain function has been hampered by poor reliability as
well as limited interpretability. Leveraging patterns of brain‐wide functional connectivity (FC) …

Evolution of cortical geometry and its link to function, behaviour and ecology

E Schwartz, KH Nenning, K Heuer, N Jeffery… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Studies in comparative neuroanatomy and of the fossil record demonstrate the influence of
socio-ecological niches on the morphology of the cerebral cortex, but have led to oftentimes …