Fig. 3: Distribution of nodes removed prior to failure in whole-brain attacks. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Distribution of nodes removed prior to failure in whole-brain attacks.

From: Virtual lesions in MEG reveal increasing vulnerability of the language network from early childhood through adolescence

Fig. 3

Distribution of nodes removed in the whole-brain for betweenness centrality-based attacks for the 1st (panel a) and 4th (panel b) quartiles of age. Regions are colored by the percentage of participants for which the node was removed prior to network failure (dark to light). These results were displayed for 5% density across participants. Results show more consistently removed regions, i.e., group level hubs, in the younger quartile (brighter regions in panel a) compared to older participants (panel b). Also, distribution of critical hubs becomes much more focal in the older group as evidenced by greater heterogeneity among neighboring regions. To show consistency across densities, results are also plotted at 2.5% (Supplementary Fig. 9, left panel) and 7.5% (Supplementary Fig. 10, left panel) density.

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