Intrinsic timescale develops hierarchically from sensorimotor to association cortex in youth and stabilizes in adulthood
Golia Shafiei, Joëlle Bagautdinova, Valerie J. Sydnor, Dani S. Bassett, Deanna M. Barch, Matthew Cieslak, Yong Fan A, Elizabeth A. Flook, Alexandre R. Franco, Gregory Kiar, Audrey C. Luo, Michael Peter Milham, Linden Parkes, Taylor Salo, Leah H. Somerville, , Theodore Daniel Satterthwaite
Resting-state fMRI intrinsic timescale lengthens with age in association, not sensorimotor, cortex during ages 8-22, following the sensorimotor-association axis in two cohorts; it is largely age-stable in young adults.
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