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Insula response and connectivity during social and non-social attention in children with autism

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Odriozola, Paola, Uddin, Lucina Q., Lynch, Charles J., Kochalka, John, Chen, Tianwen, Menon, Vinod·2016·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by reduced attention to salient social stimuli. Here, we use two visual oddball tasks to investigate brain systems engaged during attention to social (face) and non-social (scene) stimuli. We focused on the dorsal and ventral subdivisions of the anterior insula (dAI and vAI, respectively), anatomically distinct regions contributing to a 'salience network' that is known to regulate attention to behaviorally meaningful stimuli. Children with ASD performed comparably to their typically developing (TD) peers, but they engaged the right dAI and vAI differently in response to deviant faces compared with deviant scenes. Multivariate activation patterns in the dAI reliably discriminated between children with ASD and TD children with 85% classification accuracy, and children with ASD activated the vAI more than their TD peers. Children with ASD and their TD peers also differed in dAI connectivity patterns to deviant faces, with stronger within-salience network interactions in the ASD group and stronger cross-network interactions in the TD group. Our findings point to atypical patterns of right anterior insula activation and connectivity in ASD and suggest that multiple functions subserved by the insula, including attention and affective processing of salient social stimuli, are aberrant in children with the disorder.

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Authors
Odriozola, P., Uddin, L. Q., Lynch, C. J., Kochalka, J., Chen, T., & Menon, V.
Affiliations
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • University of Miami (US)
Venue
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Published
2015-10-09
Volume
11
Issue
3
Pages
433-444
ISSN
  • 1749-5016 (ISSN-L)
  • 1749-5024
OpenAlex
W2242884585
Cited by
95
References
59
Citations by year
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5.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Simons Foundation
  • National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (R01MH107549)
  • International Society for Autism Research
  • National Institute of Mental Health (K01MH092288, K01MH092288 and R01MH107549, R01MH084164, R01MH107549)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, anterior insula, dorsal anterior insula, ventral anterior insula, salience network, social attention, visual oddball, face processing, deviant stimuli, functional connectivity, children, emotional processing
MeSH terms
Attention, Autistic Disorder, Cerebral Cortex, Child, Child Development Disorders, Pervasive, Discrimination, Psychological, Face, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neural Pathways, Photic Stimulation, Social Behavior, Social Environment, Visual Perception, Asperger Syndrome

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