Educational Attainment Moderates Task-State Control Network Connectivity Relations to Response Conflict Among Healthy Older Adults

Author:

Pipoly Marco12ORCID,Lee Hyun Kyu3,Hazeltine Eliot12,Voss Michelle W12

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa , Iowa City, Iowa , USA

2. Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa , Iowa City, Iowa , USA

3. Department of Research and Development, Posit Science Inc. , San Francisco, California , USA

Abstract

Abstract Objectives Older adult executive function varies widely due to brain and cognitive aging. Variance in older adult executive function is linked to increased response conflict from cognitive and brain aging. Cognitive reserve (CR) is a theoretical protective mechanism that lessens brain aging’s impact on cognition and is associated with greater educational attainment. Recent work in rest-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) suggests CR proxies moderate the relationship between functional connectivity (FC) and cognitive performance. Brain network FC in “control networks,” including the salience (SN), dorsal attention and frontoparietal networks, are associated with cognitive processes in older adults. CR is hypothesized to maintain cognitive processing in part through changes in how brain networks respond to cognitive demands. However, it is unclear how CR proxies like educational attainment are related to control network FC during performance when cognitive demands are increased relative to rest. Because CR is expressed more in those with higher education, we hypothesized stronger control network FC would relate to better performance, where this relationship would be strongest among the most educated. Methods We collected flanker task data during fMRI to assess the impact of a CR proxy (i.e., educational attainment) on response conflict among older adult subjects (n = 42, age = 65–80). Results Linear mixed-effects models showed more educated older adults with greater SN-FC had a smaller flanker effect (i.e., less influence of distractors; p < .001) during task performance. Discussion For the first time, we show that educational attainment moderates the relationship between task-state SN-FC and executive function among older adults.

Funder

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Aging

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

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