Apparent thinning of human visual cortex during childhood is associated with myelination [Neuroscience]

Human cortex appears to thin during childhood development. However, the underlying microstructural mechanisms are unknown. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), quantitative MRI (qMRI), and diffusion MRI (dMRI) in children and adults, we tested what quantitative changes occur to gray and white matter in ventral temporal cortex (VTC) from childhood...

http://www.pnas.org/content/116/41/20750.short?rss=1

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - October 7, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Vaidehi S. Natu, Jesse Gomez, Michael Barnett, Brianna Jeska, Evgeniya Kirilina, Carsten Jaeger, Zonglei Zhen, Siobhan Cox, Kevin S. Weiner, Nikolaus Weiskopf, Kalanit Grill-Spector Tags: PNAS Plus Source Type: research