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Reduced beta band connectivity during number estimation in autism

Katrin Bangel
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Annette Ye
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Emilie Meaux
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Margot Taylor
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Sam Doesburg
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Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that disruption of integrative processes in sensation and perception may play a critical role in cognitive and behavioural atypicalities characteristic of ASD. In line with this, ASD is associated with altered structural and functional brain connectivity and atypical patterns of interregional communication which have been proposed to contribute to cognitive difficulties prevalent in this group. The present MEG study used atlas-guided source space analysis of interregional phase synchronization in ASD participants, as well as matched typically developing controls, during a dot number estimation task. This task included stimuli with globally integrated forms (animal shapes) as well as randomly-shaped stimuli which lacked a coherent global pattern. Early task-dependent increases in interregional phase synchrony in theta, alpha and beta frequency bands were observed. Reduced long-range beta-band phase synchronization was found in participants with ASD at 70-145 ms during presentation of globally coherent dot patterns. This early reduction in task-dependent interregional connectivity encompassed numerous areas including occipital, parietal, temporal, and frontal lobe regions. These results provide the first evidence for interregional phase synchronization during numerosity estimation, as well as its alteration in ASD, and suggest that problems with communication among brain areas may contribute to difficulties with integrative processes relevant to extraction of meaningful 'Gestalt' features in this population.

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hal-01765732 , version 1 (19-11-2018)

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Katrin Bangel, Magali Batty, Annette Ye, Emilie Meaux, Margot Taylor, et al.. Reduced beta band connectivity during number estimation in autism. Neuroimage-Clinical, 2014, 6, pp.202 - 213. ⟨10.1016/j.nicl.2014.08.020⟩. ⟨hal-01765732⟩
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