Fig. 3: Brain findings. | Translational Psychiatry

Fig. 3: Brain findings.

From: Altered relationship between subjective perception and central representation of touch hedonics in adolescents with autism-spectrum disorder

Fig. 3

a Scatterplots showing Pearson’s correlations between the difference in ß-values for slow and fast touch and affective touch awareness scores in TD (r = 0.69, p < 0.001) and ASD (r = 0.006, p = 0.9). b Location of right pSTS mask, anatomically defined using the Desikan–Killiany atlas. c Histograms from 100,000 bootstrap iterations computing correlations between right pSTS response and affective touch awareness correlations. Frequency distribution for bootstrap iterations for ASD (gray, 95% CI [−0.30, 0.30]), for TD (white, 95%CI [0.43, 0.86]), and for their respective difference (green, 95% CI [0.29, 1.04]). The distribution of the difference appears to be reliably smaller than zero, driven by reliable increase in correlation in TD, which was not observed in ASD.

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