A 10-year longitudinal fMRI study of narrative comprehension in children and adolescents

► First ever 10-year longitudinal study of narrative comprehension in children. ► Novel, flexible data analysis methods accounts for intra-/inter-subject variability. ► HLM used for statistical post-processing of the longitudinal fMRI data. ► Linear increase of bi-temporal involvement in narrative comprehension observed. ► Negative activations observed in DMN during control task.