TY - JOUR
T1 - Reshaping the Cortical Connectivity Gradient by Long-Term Cognitive Training During Development
AU - Xu, Tianyong
AU - Wu, Yunying
AU - Zhang, Yi
AU - Zuo, Xi Nian
AU - Chen, Feiyan
AU - Zhou, Changsong
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the Chinese Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Association and the Heilongjiang Abacus Association for their kind support, as well as to the children, parents, and teachers of Qiqihar for their participation in the study. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32071096 and 31270026); the National Social Science Foundation (17ZDA323); the STI 2030—Major Projects (2021ZD0200500); the Hong Kong Baptist University Research Committee Interdisciplinary Research Matching Scheme 2018/19 (IRMS/18-19/SCI01); the Recruitment Program of Global Experts of Zhejiang Province; and the Start-up Funds for Leading Talents at Beijing Normal University and the National Basic Science Data Center “Chinese Data-sharing Warehouse for In-vivo Imaging Brain” (NBSDC-DB-15).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - The organization of the brain follows a topological hierarchy that changes dynamically during development. However, it remains unknown whether and how cognitive training administered over multiple years during development can modify this hierarchical topology. By measuring the brain and behavior of school children who had carried out abacus-based mental calculation (AMC) training for five years (starting from 7 years to 12 years old) in pre-training and post-training, we revealed the reshaping effect of long-term AMC intervention during development on the brain hierarchical topology. We observed the development-induced emergence of the default network, AMC training-promoted shifting, and regional changes in cortical gradients. Moreover, the training-induced gradient changes were located in visual and somatomotor areas in association with the visuospatial/motor-imagery strategy. We found that gradient-based features can predict the math ability within groups. Our findings provide novel insights into the dynamic nature of network recruitment impacted by long-term cognitive training during development.
AB - The organization of the brain follows a topological hierarchy that changes dynamically during development. However, it remains unknown whether and how cognitive training administered over multiple years during development can modify this hierarchical topology. By measuring the brain and behavior of school children who had carried out abacus-based mental calculation (AMC) training for five years (starting from 7 years to 12 years old) in pre-training and post-training, we revealed the reshaping effect of long-term AMC intervention during development on the brain hierarchical topology. We observed the development-induced emergence of the default network, AMC training-promoted shifting, and regional changes in cortical gradients. Moreover, the training-induced gradient changes were located in visual and somatomotor areas in association with the visuospatial/motor-imagery strategy. We found that gradient-based features can predict the math ability within groups. Our findings provide novel insights into the dynamic nature of network recruitment impacted by long-term cognitive training during development.
KW - Abacus-based mental calculation
KW - Cognitive training
KW - Connectivity gradient
KW - Development
KW - Neural plasticity
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U2 - 10.1007/s12264-023-01108-8
DO - 10.1007/s12264-023-01108-8
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37715923
SN - 1673-7067
VL - 40
SP - 50
EP - 64
JO - Neuroscience Bulletin
JF - Neuroscience Bulletin
IS - 1
ER -
