Table 3.

Fetal intrauterine functional connectivity relates to higher infant motor function in structural equation models accounting for sex, movement during the scan, and salient maternal characteristics

Fetal cerebellar functional connectivity	B	SE	β	p
Gender	−4.32	2.99	−0.15	.161
Motion	19.64	11.52	0.14	.086
Maternal education	−0.60	1.04	−0.04	.570
Income	−0.35	0.48	−0.06	.464
Prenatal anxiety	−0.05	0.52	−0.01	.918
Cerebellum functional connectivity	8.47	3.22	0.37	.003
Cerebellum Functional Connectivity × Gender	−8.29	4.08	−0.24	.030
Fetal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) functional connectivity
Gender	−3.98	2.92	−0.14	.183
Motion	11.88	11.33	0.09	.302
Maternal education	−1.62	1.15	−0.12	.171
Income	−0.32	0.42	−0.05	.458
Prenatal anxiety	0.05	0.43	0.01	.905
ACC functional connectivity	−8.51	3.28	−0.44	<.001
ACC Functional Connectivity × Gender	3.86	4.04	0.13	.301
Fetal prefrontal cortex (PFC) functional connectivity
Gender	−4.58	2.81	−0.14	.109
Motion	18.18	10.39	0.12	.074
Maternal education	−1.59	1.47	−0.11	.308
Income	−0.32	0.47	−0.05	.498
Prenatal anxiety	−0.37	0.51	−0.07	.446
PFC functional connectivity	12.32	3.13	0.48	<.001
PFC Functional Connectivity × Gender	−11.94	4.30	−0.35	.002
Fetal inferior parietal lobule (IPL) functional connectivity
Gender	−4.31	3.02	−0.15	.16
Motion	15.25	11.46	0.11	.18
Maternal education	−0.19	1.10	−0.02	.86
Income	−0.20	0.43	−0.03	.64
Prenatal anxiety	−0.32	0.52	−0.06	.53
IPL functional connectivity	4.74	1.36	0.30	<.001
IPL Functional Connectivity × Gender	−2.79	2.41	−0.12	.240

Note: Connectivity of the ACC negatively predicts motor outcome; all other regions are positively related to infant motor ability at 7 months.