Auditory Cortex Asymmetry Associations with Individual Differences in Language and Cognition
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Behavioral Data
2.3. Imaging Data
2.4. Statistics
3. Results
3.1. Surface Area Asymmetries and Language
3.2. Behavioral Specificity
3.3. Sex Effects
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Boys | Girls | Group Difference | |||
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Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p Value | |
Oral Word Reading ^ | 90.879 | 7.101 | 90.837 | 6.701 | |
Receptive Vocabulary | 84.705 | 8.063 | 84.191 | 8.170 | *** |
Attention | 94.165 | 9.348 | 93.817 | 0.0395 | |
Executive Function ^ | 92.002 | 9.957 | 93.094 | 8.965 | *** |
Episodic Memory | 102.088 | 12.032 | 103.610 | 12.070 | *** |
Processing Speed ^ | 87.168 | 14.866 | 89.032 | 14.202 | *** |
Working Memory | 97.036 | 12.240 | 96.234 | 11.892 | *** |
Medial PTA † ^ | −0.174 | 0.124 | −0.207 | 0.110 | *** |
Anterior PTA † | 0.291 | 0.263 | 0.299 | 0.253 | |
Posterolateral PTA ^ | 0.182 | 0.214 | 0.144 | 0.204 | *** |
Total Cortical Surface Area ^ | 197,494 | 16,850 | 180,889 | 15,512 | *** |
Regression Model | NIH Toolbox Cognition Variable | Estimate | Standard Error | t-Score | |
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Level 1 | Receptive Vocabulary | 7.80−4 | 1.55−4 | 5.041 | *** |
Model 1: | Receptive Vocabulary | 6.69−4 | 1.71−4 | 3.905 | *** |
Level 2 | Oral Word Reading | 2.78−4 | 1.92−4 | 1.446 | |
Model 2: | Receptive Vocabulary | 6.99−4 | 1.58−4 | 4.429 | *** |
Level 2 | Executive Function | 3.15−4 | 1.24−4 | 2.541 | * |
Model 3: | Receptive Vocabulary | 7.21−4 | 1.57−4 | 4.599 | *** |
Level 2 | Episodic Memory | 2.41−4 | 9.48−5 | 2.546 | * |
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Eckert, M.A.; Vaden, K.I., Jr.; Paracchini, S. Auditory Cortex Asymmetry Associations with Individual Differences in Language and Cognition. Brain Sci. 2024, 14, 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14010014
Eckert MA, Vaden KI Jr., Paracchini S. Auditory Cortex Asymmetry Associations with Individual Differences in Language and Cognition. Brain Sciences. 2024; 14(1):14. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14010014
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