Examining the relationship between measures of autistic traits and neural synchrony during movies in children with and without autism

Lyons, Kathleen; Stevenson, Ryan A.; Owen, Adrian M.; Stojanoski, Bobby

doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102477

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“…The decreased ISC suggests reduced functional specialization of corresponding brain regions to natural stimuli ( Moraczewski et al, 2018 ). Consistent with previous studies, we found that the brain regions desynchronized in ASD during watching movie contents with various types of social interactions ( Hasson et al, 2009 ; Salmi et al, 2013 ; Byrge et al, 2015 ; Lyons et al, 2020 ). The ASD group showed significantly lower ISC than the TD group in several brain areas, including the right middle temporal gyrus (MTG.R), right temporal pole (TPO.R), left caudate (CAU.L), left precuneus (PCUN.L) and cerebellum.…”

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“…K.M. Lyons revealed ASD have significantly less neural synchrony in brain regions related to “theory of mind” while watching the movie Despicable Me ( Lyons et al, 2020 ). These advanced discoveries have accelerated maturation of movie-watching fMRI for pathological research.…”

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“…Resting-state fMRI and task-based fMRI do not mimic real-world experiences, where the brain constantly receives massive amounts of rich sensory stimuli ( Kauppi et al, 2017 ). Movie-watching fMRI scanning requires participants to integrate perceptual and cognitive systems to follow the complexity of movie plots and thus resemble situations of daily life ( Lyons et al, 2020 ), which is difficult to attain in resting-state fMRI and task-based fMRI. Moreover, task-based fMRI cannot avoid the problem of poor data quality caused by head motion, especially when collecting data from children with neurodevelopmental disorders ( Pua et al, 2020 ).…”

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Movie Events Detecting Reveals Inter-Subject Synchrony Difference of Functional Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Gao

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Recently, movie-watching fMRI has been recognized as a novel method to explore brain working patterns. Previous researchers correlated natural stimuli with brain responses to explore brain functional specialization by “reverse correlation” methods, which were based on within-group analysis. However, what external stimuli drove significantly different brain responses in two groups of different subjects were still unknown. To address this, sliding time windows technique combined with inter-Subject functional correlation (ISFC) was proposed to detect movie events with significant group differences between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typical development (TD) subjects. Then, using inter-Subject correlation (ISC) and ISFC analysis, we found that in three movie events involving character emotions, the ASD group showed significantly lower ISC in the middle temporal gyrus, temporal pole, cerebellum, caudate, precuneus, and showed decreased functional connectivity between large scale networks than that in TD. Under the movie event focusing on objects and scenes shot, the dorsal and ventral attentional networks of ASD had a strong synchronous response. Meanwhile, ASD also displayed increased functional connectivity between the frontoparietal network (FPN) and dorsal attention network (DAN), FPN, and sensorimotor network (SMN) than TD. ASD has its own unique synchronous response rather than being “unresponsive” in natural movie-watching. Our findings provide a new method and valuable insight for exploring the inconsistency of the brain “tick collectively” to same natural stimuli. This analytic approach has the potential to explore pathological mechanisms and promote training methods of ASD.

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Movie Events Detecting Reveals Inter-Subject Synchrony Difference of Functional Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Gao

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“…For example, similarity in autistic traits or diagnosis, rather than social ability, is associated with greater self-reported friendship quality and greater interpersonal rapport (Bolis et al, 2021;Crompton et al, 2020). However, fMRI studies show more idiosyncratic neural patterns compared to typically developing groups and among autistic individuals (Bolton et al, 2018;Byrge et al, 2015;Hasson et al, 2009;Lyons et al, 2020;Salmi et al, 2013). It will be important to compare whether neural similarity or perceived similarity contributes more significantly to successful social interaction and feelings of belonging among a wider range of individuals.…”

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Partner similarity and social-cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers

Dziura¹,

Hosangadi²,

Shariq

et al. 2023

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Social interactions are a ubiquitous part of engaging in the world around us, and determining what makes an interaction successful is necessary for social well-being. This study examined the separate contributions of individual social cognitive ability and partner similarity toward social interaction success among strangers, measured by a cooperative communication task and self-reported interaction quality. Sixty participants engaged in a one-hour virtual social interaction with an unfamiliar partner (a lab confederate) including a 30-minute cooperative “mind-reading” game, and then completed several individual tasks and surveys. They then underwent a separate fMRI session in which they passively viewed video clips that varied in content. The neural responses to these videos were correlated with those of their confederate interaction partners to yield a measure of pairwise neural similarity. We found that trait empathy (assessed by the interpersonal reactivity index) and neural similarity to partner both predicted communication success in the mind-reading game. In contrast, perceived similarity to partner and (to a much lesser extent) trait mind-reading motivation predicted self-reported interaction quality. These results highlight the importance of sharing perspectives in successful communication, as well as differences between neurobiological similarity and perceived similarity in supporting different types of interaction success.

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“…For over 20 years, researchers using fMRI have explored the use of movies to provide rich stimulation for research participants including children [5][6][7] , healthy adults [8][9][10][11][12][13] , and numerous other populations [14][15][16][17] . Although not completely naturalistic, movies convey complex auditory and visual information covering a range of sensory, cognitive, and linguistic domains.…”

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A high-density diffuse optical tomography dataset of naturalistic viewing

Sherafati,

Bajracharya,

Jones

et al. 2023

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Traditional laboratory tasks offer tight experimental control but lack the richness of our everyday human experience. As a result many cognitive neuroscientists have been motivated to adopt experimental paradigms that are more natural, such as stories and movies. Here we describe data collected from 58 healthy adult participants (aged 18–76 years) who viewed 10 minutes of a movie (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 1966). Most (36) participants viewed the clip more than once, resulting in 106 sessions of data. Cortical responses were mapped using high-density diffuse optical tomography (first-through fourth nearest neighbor separations of 1.3, 3.0, 3.9, and 4.7 cm), covering large portions of superficial occipital, temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes. Consistency of measured activity across subjects was quantified using intersubject correlation analysis. Data are provided in both channel format (SNIRF) and projected to standard space (NIfTI), using an atlas-based light model. These data are suitable for methods exploration as well as investigating a wide variety of cognitive phenomena.

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Examining the relationship between measures of autistic traits and neural synchrony during movies in children with and without autism

Cited by 22 publications

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Movie Events Detecting Reveals Inter-Subject Synchrony Difference of Functional Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Movie Events Detecting Reveals Inter-Subject Synchrony Difference of Functional Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Partner similarity and social-cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers

A high-density diffuse optical tomography dataset of naturalistic viewing

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