Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals.

ABSTRACT: Persons with and without autism process sensory information differently. Differences in sensory processing are directly relevant to social functioning and communicative abilities, which are known to be hampered in persons with autism. We collected functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 25 autistic individuals and 25 neurotypical individuals while they performed a silent gesture recognition task. We exploited brain network topology, a holistic quantification of how networks within the brain are organized to provide new insights into how visual communicative signals are processed in autistic and neurotypical individuals. Performing graph theoretical analysis, we calculated two network properties of the action observation network: 'local efficiency', as a measure of network segregati

SUBMITTER: Trujillo JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9629468 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature