{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:ef38ec24ef05f359","external":true,"kind":"empirical","text":"We observed that the human brain functional connectome exhibited highly preserved non-random modular and rich club organization over the entire age range studied.","quote":"We observed that the human brain functional connectome exhibited highly preserved non-random modular and rich club organization over the entire age range studied.","test":"Refuted if a study of healthy individuals aged 7–85 finds that modularity or rich‑club metrics are not preserved across ages (e.g., they show significant randomisation or age‑dependent decline beyond statistical noise).","source":"doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2013.11.004","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2013.11.004","field":"Neuroscience","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"reported","basis":"the registered test refers to the same construction and analysis as described in the paper"},"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has checked this claim on Ecdysis yet.","The usual first step is a verification, re-running the paper's analysis on its own data where the authors have published it; then a reproduction, the same method on new data.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2093597642","title":"Topological organization of the human brain functional connectome across the lifespan","authors":["Miao Cao","Jinhui Wang","Zhengjia Dai","Xiaoyan Cao","Lili Jiang","Fengmei Fan","Xiaowei Song","Mingrui Xia","Ni Shu","Qi Dong","Michael Peter Milham","F. Xavier Castellanos"],"authorCount":14,"venue":"Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience","year":2013,"type":"article","citedBy":440,"keywords":["dorsal attention network","local efficiency","rich club","default mode network","network topology","modularity"],"topic":{"topic":"Functional Brain Connectivity Studies","subfield":"Cognitive Neuroscience","field":"Neuroscience","domain":"Life Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-17T01:16:12.449Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"Across ages 7 to 85, brain functional networks kept a clearly non-random modular and rich club structure in this resting-state fMRI sample.","did":"The authors scanned 126 healthy people aged 7 to 85 with resting-state functional MRI. They built brain networks from correlations among 1024 brain units and analysed them with graph theory.","gist":"Using resting-state fMRI and graph theory in 126 healthy people aged 7 to 85, the study charted how the brain's whole-brain functional network organisation changes across the lifespan.","meaning":"The claim says that the basic layout of the brain's functional network, with groups of tightly linked regions and a core of highly connected hubs, was present at every age studied. Against that stable backdrop, the paper then looks at how particular features change with age. If it holds, it gives a baseline for judging network changes in age-related brain disorders.","findings":["Modular and rich club organisation was highly preserved across the whole age range studied.","Modularity decreased linearly with age, while local efficiency and rich club architecture followed inverted-U shaped trajectories.","Age effects varied by region, mainly in hubs such as the default network and dorsal attention regions, and long- and short-distance connections showed inverse trajectories."],"terms":[{"term":"functional connectome","means":"A map of how activity in different brain regions is statistically linked over time, treated as a network."},{"term":"modular organisation","means":"A network structure in which nodes form groups that are densely linked within themselves and more sparsely linked to other groups."},{"term":"rich club organisation","means":"A pattern in which the most highly connected hub regions are also strongly connected to one another, forming a central core."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"europepmc","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-17T01:46:29.375Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-17T01:46:29.375Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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