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Trial reportScientific reports2019

Spectral slowing is associated with working memory performance in children born very preterm.

Julie Sato, Sarah I Mossad, Simeon M Wong, Benjamin A E Hunt, Benjamin T Dunkley, Charline Urbain, Margot J Taylor

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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Julie SatoDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. julie.sato@sickkids.ca.
Sarah I MossadDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Simeon M WongNeuroscience & Mental Health Program, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9070-0665
Benjamin A E HuntDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Benjamin T DunkleyDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Charline UrbainUR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Group at Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences (CRCN) and ULB Neurosciences Institute (UNI), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
Margot J TaylorDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.

Funding

CIHR MOP-137115
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Children born very preterm (VPT) often demonstrate selective difficulties in working memory (WM), which may underlie academic difficulties observed in this population. Despite this, few studies have investigated the functional networks underlying WM in young children born VPT, a period when cognitive deficits become apparent. Using magnetoencephalography, we examined the networks underlying the maintenance of visual information in 6-year-old VPT (n = 15) and full-term (FT; n = 20) children. Although task performance was similar, VPT children engaged different oscillatory mechanisms during WM maintenance. Within the FT group, we observed higher mean whole-brain connectivity in the alpha-band during the retention (i.e. maintenance) interval associated with correct compared to incorrect responses. VPT children showed reduced whole-brain alpha synchrony, and a different network organization with fewer connections. In the theta-band, VPT children demonstrated a slight increase in whole-brain connectivity during WM maintenance, and engaged similar network hubs as FT children in the alpha-band, including the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and superior temporal gyrus. These findings suggest that VPT children rely on the theta-band to support similar task performance. Altered oscillatory mechanisms may reflect a less mature pattern of functional recruitment underlying WM in VPT children, which may affect the processing in complex ecological situations.

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ConnectomeMagnetoencephalographyBrainChildCognitionFemaleHumansInfant, Extremely PrematureInfant, NewbornMaleMemory, Short-Term

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PMID31673006
PMCPMC6823447

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