Functional connectivity differences in autism during face and car recognition: underconnectivity and atypical age-related changes.

ABSTRACT: Face recognition abilities improve between adolescence and adulthood over typical development (TD), but plateau in autism, leading to increasing face recognition deficits in autism later in life. Developmental differences between autism and TD may reflect changes between neural systems involved in the development of face encoding and recognition. Here, we focused on whole-brain connectivity with the fusiform face area (FFA), a well-established face-preferential brain region. Older children, adolescents, and adults with and without autism completed the Cambridge Face Memory Test, and a matched car memory test, during fMRI scanning. We then examined task-based functional connectivity between the FFA and the rest of the brain, comparing autism and TD groups during encoding and recognition of

SUBMITTER: Lynn AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5392438 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature