- Marek, Scott;
- Tervo-Clemmens, Brenden;
- Nielsen, Ashley N;
- Wheelock, Muriah D;
- Miller, Ryland L;
- Laumann, Timothy O;
- Earl, Eric;
- Foran, William W;
- Cordova, Michaela;
- Doyle, Olivia;
- Perrone, Anders;
- Miranda-Dominguez, Oscar;
- Feczko, Eric;
- Sturgeon, Darrick;
- Graham, Alice;
- Hermosillo, Robert;
- Snider, Kathy;
- Galassi, Anthony;
- Nagel, Bonnie J;
- Ewing, Sarah W Feldstein;
- Eggebrecht, Adam T;
- Garavan, Hugh;
- Dale, Anders M;
- Greene, Deanna J;
- Barch, Deanna M;
- Fair, Damien A;
- Luna, Beatriz;
- Dosenbach, Nico UF
The 21-site Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study provides an unparalleled opportunity to characterize functional brain development via resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) and to quantify relationships between RSFC and behavior. This multi-site data set includes potentially confounding sources of variance, such as differences between data collection sites and/or scanner manufacturers, in addition to those inherent to RSFC (e.g., head motion). The ABCD project provides a framework for characterizing and reproducing RSFC and RSFC-behavior associations, while quantifying the extent to which sources of variability bias RSFC estimates. We quantified RSFC and functional network architecture in 2,188 9-10-year old children from the ABCD study, segregated into demographically-matched discovery (N = 1,166) and replication datasets (N = 1,022). We found RSFC and network architecture to be highly reproducible across children. We did not observe strong effects of site; however, scanner manufacturer effects were large, reproducible, and followed a "short-to-long" association with distance between regions. Accounting for potential confounding variables, we replicated that RSFC between several higher-order networks was related to general cognition. In sum, we provide a framework for how to characterize RSFC-behavior relationships in a rigorous and reproducible manner using the ABCD dataset and other large multi-site projects.