ArticleNature communications2026
Preserved topography, lateralization, selectivity, and functional connectivity of the language network in older brains.
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- Frontal Vulnerability versus Temporal Resilience within the Core Language Network: Neuro-compensatory Mechanisms Underline Differential Language Aging Trajectories.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- The Neural Cost of Language Processing: Broader Network Recruitment in Adults With Developmental Language Disorder.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- The language network responds robustly to sentences across tasks.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
- A 3.5-minute-long reading-based fMRI localizer for the language network.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Healthy aging is associated with structural and functional brain changes. However, cognitive abilities vary in how they change with age: executive functions decline, while aspects of linguistic processing remain relatively preserved. This heterogeneity predicts differences among brain networks in whether and how they change with age. To evaluate this prediction, we used precision fMRI to examine the language-selective network and the Multiple Demand (MD) network, which supports executive functions, in older adults (N = 64) relative to young controls (N = 483). The MD network of older adults shows weaker, less spatially extensive, and more topographically variable activations during an executive function task and reduced within-network functional connectivity. In contrast, we find remarkable preservation of the language network in older adults: it responds during language comprehension as strongly and selectively as in younger adults, with similar left-hemispheric lateralization and within-network functional connectivity. These findings align with behavioral preservation of language comprehension in healthy aging.
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