Functional maturation in visual pathways predicts attention to the eyes in infant rhesus macaques: Effects of social status.

ABSTRACT: Differences in looking at the eyes of others are one of the earliest behavioral markers for social difficulties in neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism. However, it is unknown how early visuo-social experiences relate to the maturation of infant brain networks that process visual social stimuli. We investigated functional connectivity (FC) within the ventral visual object pathway as a contributing neural system. Densely sampled, longitudinal eye-tracking and resting state fMRI (rs-fMRI) data were collected from infant rhesus macaques, an important model of human social development, from birth through 6 months of age. Mean trajectories were fit for both datasets and individual trajectories from subjects with both eye-tracking and rs-fMRI data were used to test for brain-behavio

SUBMITTER: Ford A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9925610 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature