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Reduced functional connectivity between V1 and inferior frontal cortex associated with visuomotor performance in autism
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Some recent evidence has suggested abnormalities of the dorsal stream and possibly the mirror neuron system in autism, which may be responsible for impairments of joint attention, imitation, and secondarily for language delays. The current study investigates functional connectivity along the dorsal stream in autism, examining interregional blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal cross-correlation during visuomotor coordination. Eight high-functioning autistic men and eight handedness and age-matched controls were included. Visually prompted button presses were performed with the preferred hand. For each subject, functional connectivity was computed in terms of BOLD signal correlation with the mean time series in bilateral visual area 17. Our hypothesis of reduced dorsal stream connectivity in autism was only in part confirmed. Functional connectivity with superior parietal areas was not significantly reduced. However, the autism group showed significantly reduced connectivity with bilateral inferior frontal area 44, which is compatible with the hypothesis of mirror neuron defects in autism. More generally, our findings suggest that dorsal stream connectivity in autism may not be fully functional.
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“They found intact functional connectivity in the ASD group between V1 and superior parietal areas, suggesting that dorsal stream connectivity was intact.There was, however, reduced functional connectivity between V1 and inferior frontal areas, which Villalobos et al. (2005) suggest may be consistent with mirror-neuron system dysfunction.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Villalobos, M. E., Mizuno, A., Dahl, B. C., Kemmotsu, N., & Müller, R.-A.
- Affiliations
- San Diego State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Müller, Ralph-Axel
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-04
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 916-925
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3319340
- OpenAlex
- W2026452816
- Cited by
- 312
- References
- 99
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 10.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH36840, T34MH065183, R01MH036840, 5T34MH65183-3)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC006155)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, functional connectivity, dorsal stream, inferior frontal cortex, mirror neuron system, visuomotor coordination, superior parietal cortex, joint attention, imitation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Attention, Autistic Disorder, Brain Mapping, Dominance, Cerebral, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Image Enhancement, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Language Development Disorders, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Nerve Net, Neurons, Oxygen, Parietal Lobe, Psychomotor Performance, Reference Values, Statistics as Topic, Stereotyped Behavior, Temporal Lobe, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception, Imaging, Three-Dimensional
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