The neural basis of deictic shifting in linguistic perspective-taking in high-functioning autism

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2422-2435

  Mizuno, Akiko ^a   Liu, Yanni ^a   Williams, Diane L ^b   Keller, Timothy A ^a   Minshew, Nancy J ^c   Just, Marcel Adam ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

autism; functional connectivity; insula; precuneus; pronoun reversal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80052005400     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr151     Document Type: Article

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