Table 3.

Differences in global network measures from the cognitive connectome across age groups.

	Early-middle-age vs. Elderly	Early-middle-age vs. Late-middle-age	Late-middle-age vs. Elderly
Av. Strength	n.s	n.s	↓
Transitivity	↓	n.s	↓
Global Efficiency	↑	↓	↑
Local Efficiency	n.s	↓	n.s
Modularity	n.s	↓	↑

The table shows an overview of the results from global graph analyses. Please, see Figure 7 for more details about quantitative results. Each column shows the between-group differences in global network measures, with the first group as the reference group in the comparison: higher values in the second group in the comparison are indicated with an upwards arrow (e.g., in the “Early-middle-age vs. Elderly” comparison, an upwards arrow indicates that the Elderly group had a higher global efficiency than the Early-middle-age group), lower values in the second group in the comparison are indicated with a downwards arrow, and n.s denotes non-significant results. Results were considered significant when p ≤ 0.05 (two-tailed).