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Cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents

The ability to plan is an important part of the set of the cognitive skills called “executive functions.” To be able to plan actions in advance is of great importance in everyday life and constitutes one of the major key features for academic as well as economic success. The present study aimed to i...

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Autores principales: Kollndorfer, Kathrin, Novak, Astrid, Nenning, Karl-Heinz, Fischmeister, Florian Ph S., Seidl, Rainer, Langs, Georg, Kasprian, Gregor, Prayer, Daniela, Bartha-Doering, Lisa
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10546024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37794918
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196707
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author Kollndorfer, Kathrin
Novak, Astrid
Nenning, Karl-Heinz
Fischmeister, Florian Ph S.
Seidl, Rainer
Langs, Georg
Kasprian, Gregor
Prayer, Daniela
Bartha-Doering, Lisa
author_facet Kollndorfer, Kathrin
Novak, Astrid
Nenning, Karl-Heinz
Fischmeister, Florian Ph S.
Seidl, Rainer
Langs, Georg
Kasprian, Gregor
Prayer, Daniela
Bartha-Doering, Lisa
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description The ability to plan is an important part of the set of the cognitive skills called “executive functions.” To be able to plan actions in advance is of great importance in everyday life and constitutes one of the major key features for academic as well as economic success. The present study aimed to investigate the neuroanatomical correlates of planning in normally developing children, as measured by the cortical thickness of the prefrontal cortex. Eighteen healthy children and adolescents underwent structural MRI examinations and the Tower of London (ToL) task. A multiple regression analysis revealed that the cortical thickness of the right caudal middle frontal gyrus (cMFG) was a significant predictor of planning performance. Neither the cortical thickness of any other prefrontal area nor gender were significantly associated with performance in the ToL task. The results of the present exploratory study suggest that the cortical thickness of the right, but not the left cMFG, is positively correlated with performance in the ToL task. We, therefore, conclude that increased cortical thickness may be more beneficial for higher-order processes, such as information integration, than for lower-order processes, such as the analysis of external information.
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spelling pubmed-105460242023-10-04 Cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents Kollndorfer, Kathrin Novak, Astrid Nenning, Karl-Heinz Fischmeister, Florian Ph S. Seidl, Rainer Langs, Georg Kasprian, Gregor Prayer, Daniela Bartha-Doering, Lisa Front Psychol Psychology The ability to plan is an important part of the set of the cognitive skills called “executive functions.” To be able to plan actions in advance is of great importance in everyday life and constitutes one of the major key features for academic as well as economic success. The present study aimed to investigate the neuroanatomical correlates of planning in normally developing children, as measured by the cortical thickness of the prefrontal cortex. Eighteen healthy children and adolescents underwent structural MRI examinations and the Tower of London (ToL) task. A multiple regression analysis revealed that the cortical thickness of the right caudal middle frontal gyrus (cMFG) was a significant predictor of planning performance. Neither the cortical thickness of any other prefrontal area nor gender were significantly associated with performance in the ToL task. The results of the present exploratory study suggest that the cortical thickness of the right, but not the left cMFG, is positively correlated with performance in the ToL task. We, therefore, conclude that increased cortical thickness may be more beneficial for higher-order processes, such as information integration, than for lower-order processes, such as the analysis of external information. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10546024/ /pubmed/37794918 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196707 Text en Copyright © 2023 Kollndorfer, Novak, Nenning, Fischmeister, Seidl, Langs, Kasprian, Prayer and Bartha-Doering. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Kollndorfer, Kathrin
Novak, Astrid
Nenning, Karl-Heinz
Fischmeister, Florian Ph S.
Seidl, Rainer
Langs, Georg
Kasprian, Gregor
Prayer, Daniela
Bartha-Doering, Lisa
Cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents
title Cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents
title_full Cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents
title_fullStr Cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents
title_short Cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents
title_sort cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10546024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37794918
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196707
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