Processing of pragmatic communication in ASD: a video-based brain imaging study.

ABSTRACT: Social and pragmatic difficulties in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are widely recognized, although their underlying neural level processing is not well understood. The aim of this study was to examine the activity of the brain network components linked to social and pragmatic understanding in order to reveal whether complex socio-pragmatic events evoke differences in brain activity between the ASD and control groups. Nineteen young adults (mean age 23.6 years) with ASD and 19 controls (mean age 22.7 years) were recruited for the study. The stimulus data consisted of video clips showing complex social events that demanded processing of pragmatic communication. In the analysis, the functional magnetic resonance imaging signal responses of the selected brain network components linked to soci

SUBMITTER: Kotila A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7729953 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature