Fusiform function in children with an autism spectrum disorder is a matter of "who".

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the importance of face processing for normal social development, no functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of face processing in autism have focused exclusively on the childhood years. To fill this gap, 45 children aged 6-12 participated in practice scans. After exclusion due to motion, 11 children with an ASD and 11 age-matched normal control subjects were included in final analyses.

Methods

Stimuli consisted of pictures of a familiar adult, familiar child, stranger adult, stranger child, and objects. During the scan, children pressed a button in response to an identical face shown on two consecutive trials. On the basis of our prior research, masks of four anatomic regions of interest (ROIs) including the fusiform gyrus, amygdala, and anterior and

SUBMITTER: Pierce K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2673799 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature