Table 3.
Results of longitudinal mixed models testing the association between fractional anisotropy development and language outcome.
| Fiber tract | FA Change | Language at 24 months1 |
FA Change *Language |
Adaptive FDR |
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| F | p | F | p | F | p | p | |
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| Splenium | 6.76 | .012 | 2.45 | .127 | 9.58 | .004 | .029* |
| CC Body | 21.38 | .000 | 1.98 | .169 | 6.45 | .016 | .098 |
| Anterior CC | 43.95 | .000 | 1.95 | .172 | 4.40 | .044 | .264 |
| Arcuate, left | 55.13 | .000 | 0.06 | .807 | 0.33 | .571 | .902 |
| Arcuate, right | 66.25 | .000 | 0.15 | .701 | 0.34 | .562 | .902 |
| ILF, left | 23.86 | .000 | 0.00 | .976 | 0.02 | .902 | .902 |
| ILF, right | 19.65 | .000 | 2.26 | .143 | 6.78 | .014 | .084 |
| Uncinate, left | 39.96 | .000 | 0.57 | .456 | 0.05 | .830 | .902 |
| Uncinate, right | 29.37 | .000 | 0.01 | .928 | 1.47 | .234 | .902 |
1
Language measure by the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory, Number of words produced at 24 months
*
Significant interaction that survived adaptive false-discovery rate procedure (Hochberg & Benjamini, 1990).
Note: FA, Fractional anisotropy; CC, Corpus Callosum; ILF, Inferior longitudinal fasciculus