Brain organization underlying superior mathematical abilities in children with autism

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 223-230

  Iuculano, Teresa ^a,c   Rosenberg Lee, Miriam ^a   Supekar, Kaustubh ^a   Lynch, Charles J ^a   Khouzam, Amirah ^a   Phillips, Jennifer ^a   Uddin, Lucina Q ^a   Menon, Vinod ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; brain organization; cognitive strengths; mathematical abilities; multivariate pattern analysis; support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AUTISM; BRAIN ORGANIZATION; COGNITIVE STRENGTHS; MATHEMATICAL ABILITIES; MULTIVARIATE PATTERN ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84891635361     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.06.018     Document Type: Article

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