Impaired gamma-band activity during perceptual organization in adults with autism spectrum disorders: Evidence for dysfunctional network activity in frontal-posterior cortices

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 9563-9573

  Sun, Limin ^a   Grützner, Christine ^a   Bölte, Sven ^b,c   Wibral, Michael ^b   Tozman, Tahmine ^b   Schlitt, Sabine ^b   Poustka, Fritz ^b   Singer, Wolf ^a,d,e   Freitag, Christine M ^b   Uhlhaas, Peter J ^a,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^e ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; LINGUAL GYRUS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863643202     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1073-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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