Hard to "tune in": Neural mechanisms of live face-to-face interaction with high-functioning autistic spectrum disorder

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Tanabe, Hiroki C ^a,b,c   Kosaka, Hirotaka ^d   Saito, Daisuke N ^d   Koike, Takahiko ^a   Hayashi, Masamichi J ^a,b   Izuma, Keise ^a,b   Komeda, Hidetsugu ^a   Ishitobi, Makoto ^d   Omori, Masao ^e   Munesue, Toshio ^f   Okazawa, Hidehiko ^d   Wada, Yuji ^d   Sadato, Norihiro ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^e FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autistic spectrum disorder; Functional connectivity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hyperscanning; Inter subject coherence; Joint attention; Mutual gaze

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE CONTACT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTER BRAIN COHERENCE; JOINT ATTENTION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 84933679964     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00268     Document Type: Article

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