Brain activity related to working memory and distraction in children and adults |
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Authors: | Olesen Pernille J Macoveanu Julian Tegnér Jesper Klingberg Torkel |
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Institution: | Neuropediatric Research Unit, Department of Women and Child Health, Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital Q2:07, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden. |
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Abstract: | In order to retain information in working memory (WM) during a delay, distracting stimuli must be ignored. This important ability improves during childhood, but the neural basis for this development is not known. We measured brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging in adults and 13-year-old children. Data were analyzed with an event-related design to isolate activity during cue, delay, distraction, and response selection. Adults were more accurate and less distractible than children. Activity in the middle frontal gyrus and intraparietal cortex was stronger in adults than in children during the delay, when information was maintained in WM. Distraction during the delay evoked activation in parietal and occipital cortices in both adults and children. However, distraction activated frontal cortex only in children. The larger frontal activation in response to distracters presented during the delay may explain why children are more susceptible to interfering stimuli. |
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Keywords: | development dorsolateral event related fMRI prefrontal visuospatial |
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