Social perception in autism spectrum disorders: Impaired category selectivity for dynamic but not static images in ventral temporal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-48

  Weisberg, Jill ^a   Milleville, Shawn C ^a   Kenworthy, Lauren ^a,b   Wallace, Gregory L ^a   Gotts, Stephen J ^a   Beauchamp, Michael S ^c   Martin, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Asperger's syndrome; Autism; Fusiform gyrus; MRI fMRI; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERCEPTION; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VIGNETTE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC OBSERVATION SCHEDULE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INTERVIEW; SOCIAL COGNITION; VENTRAL TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ASPERGER'S SYNDROME; AUTISM; FUSIFORM GYRUS; MRI/FMRI; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROIMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890494635     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs276     Document Type: Article

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