Abstract #3470
Dual language pathways associate with attention and language deficits in high-functioning autism: a diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) study
Yu-Chun Lo 1 , Susan Shur-Fen Gau 2,3 , and Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng 1,3
1
Center for Optoelectronic Medicine, National
Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan,
2
Department
of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University College of
Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan,
3
Graduate
Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan
University, Taipei, Taiwan
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of
neurodevelopmental disorders with language-communication
deficit as one of the core symptoms. Patients with
high-functioning autism show worse performance than
neurotypicals in complex language tasks such as
comprehension and inference. According to previous
studies, attention impairments are the key cognitive
deficits leading to autism symptomatology, including
language deficits. In this study, we found dual pathways
involved not only language but also attention in ASD,
suggesting that the roles of the dual pathways differ
between neurotypicals and ASD.
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