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. Bunge^1,4

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