Cortical activation and synchronization during sentence comprehension in high-functioning autism: Evidence of underconnectivity

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1811-1821

  Just, Marcel Adam ^a   Cherkassky, Vladimir L ^a   Keller, Timothy A ^a   Minshew, Nancy J ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Functional MRI; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 4043138783     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh199     Document Type: Article

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