Frontotemporal structure preservation underlies the protective effect of lifetime intellectual cognitive reserve on cognition in the elderly

Table 3 Partial correlation between brain structure characteristics and cognitive functions

Regions	Mean value	Episodic Memory		Executive Processing Ability		Language Ability		General Cognitive Ability
Regions	Mean value	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Frontal_Sup_Orb_L	8.50 ± 2.40	-0.04	0.25	0.04	0.17	0.01	0.66	0.02	0.53
Fusiform_R	13.54 ± 3.15	0.05	0.10	0.13	< 0.001	0.09	0.003	0.12	< 0.001
SS.R	0.46 ± 0.04	0.03	0.39	0.05	0.08	0.03	0.34	0.05	0.13
SS.L	0.45 ± 0.04	0.04	0.24	0.07	0.023	0.05	0.14	0.06	0.035
EC.R	0.32 ± 0.03	0.04	0.19	0.09	0.004	0.08	0.012	0.09	0.004
EC.L	0.32 ± 0.03	0.05	0.07	0.11	< 0.001	0.10	0.001	0.11	< 0.001
CGC.R	0.37 ± 0.03	0.06	0.06	0.12	< 0.001	0.12	< 0.001	0.13	< 0.001
CGC.L	0.37 ± 0.03	0.08	0.01	0.13	< 0.001	0.12	< 0.001	0.13	< 0.001
CH.R	0.32 ± 0.03	0.005	0.88	0.05	0.09	0.02	0.44	0.04	0.22
CH.L	0.31 ± 0.03	0.03	0.30	0.09	0.003	0.06	0.06	0.08	0.008
FX/ST.R	0.43 ± 0.04	0.07	0.01	0.15	< 0.001	0.11	< 0.001	0.14	< 0.001
FX/ST.L	0.45 ± 0.04	0.08	0.01	0.14	< 0.001	0.10	< 0.001	0.14	< 0.001
SLF.R	0.40 ± 0.03	0.07	0.018	0.10	< 0.001	0.11	< 0.001	0.12	< 0.001
SLF.L	0.39 ± 0.03	0.08	0.005	0.11	< 0.001	0.10	0.001	0.12	< 0.001
IFOF.R	0.42 ± 0.04	0.03	0.31	0.07	0.025	0.05	0.07	0.07	0.03
IFOF.L	0.39 ± 0.03	0.05	0.09	0.10	0.001	0.08	0.009	0.10	0.001
UNC.R	0.41 ± 0.04	0.08	0.005	0.10	< 0.001	0.08	0.007	0.11	< 0.001
UNC.L	0.38 ± 0.04	0.09	0.004	0.10	0.001	0.09	0.003	0.11	< 0.001

The gray matter volume and FA values are represented by the mean and standard deviation. The partial correlations with p values less than 0.026 were all after FWE correction

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