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Abstract #1242

Structural Correlates of Fluid Reasoning Development Indexed by Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Cortical Thickness Analyses

Kirstie Jane Whitaker1, Elizabeth D. O'Hare1, Zdea A. Op de Macks2, Brian D. Johnson1, Emilio Ferrer3, Silvia A. Bunge1,4

1Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA; 2Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; 3Psychology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA; 4Psychology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA


This study investigates the relationship between structural changes in gray and white matter in the developing brain and behavioural measures of fluid reasoning ability. Fluid reasoning, the ability to solve