Article ; Online: Differential neural correlates underlying visuospatial versus semantic reasoning in autistic children.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
2024 Volume 34, Issue 13, Page(s) 19–29
Abstract: While fronto-posterior underconnectivity has often been reported in autism, it was shown that different contexts may modulate between-group differences in functional connectivity. Here, we assessed how different task paradigms modulate functional ... ...
Abstract | While fronto-posterior underconnectivity has often been reported in autism, it was shown that different contexts may modulate between-group differences in functional connectivity. Here, we assessed how different task paradigms modulate functional connectivity differences in a young autistic sample relative to typically developing children. Twenty-three autistic and 23 typically developing children aged 6 to 15 years underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning while completing a reasoning task with visuospatial versus semantic content. We observed distinct connectivity patterns in autistic versus typical children as a function of task type (visuospatial vs. semantic) and problem complexity (visual matching vs. reasoning), despite similar performance. For semantic reasoning problems, there was no significant between-group differences in connectivity. However, during visuospatial reasoning problems, we observed occipital-occipital, occipital-temporal, and occipital-frontal over-connectivity in autistic children relative to typical children. Also, increasing the complexity of visuospatial problems resulted in increased functional connectivity between occipital, posterior (temporal), and anterior (frontal) brain regions in autistic participants, more so than in typical children. Our results add to several studies now demonstrating that the connectivity alterations in autistic relative to neurotypical individuals are much more complex than previously thought and depend on both task type and task complexity and their respective underlying cognitive processes. |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Child ; Male ; Adolescent ; Female ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Semantics ; Autistic Disorder/physiopathology ; Autistic Disorder/diagnostic imaging ; Autistic Disorder/psychology ; Brain/diagnostic imaging ; Brain/physiopathology ; Brain Mapping ; Space Perception/physiology ; Neural Pathways/physiopathology ; Neural Pathways/diagnostic imaging |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2024-05-02 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
ZDB-ID | 1077450-6 |
ISSN | 1460-2199 ; 1047-3211 |
ISSN (online) | 1460-2199 |
ISSN | 1047-3211 |
DOI | 10.1093/cercor/bhae093 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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