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Voices May Not Trigger Brain’s Reward Centers in Children with ASD
Published June 17, 2013
in PNAS
This Stanford study identifies an underconnectivity between the voice-selective cortex and the reward centers in the brain. This could suggest why children with autism have trouble grasping the social and emotional aspects of human speech.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/06/12/1302982110
Filed under: Autism News, Autism Research, Autism Science, Brain Imaging, Cognition, featured, Social Interaction, Speech