Table 4.
Significant activity observed in between-group comparisons for contrasts of interest
| TD > ASD | ASD > TD | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anatomical region | Peak (MNI; mm) | Extent (voxels) | Max (t) | Cluster (P) | Peak (MNI; mm) | Extent (voxels) | Max (t) | Cluster (P) | ||||
| Beat gesture with speech versus Still frame with speech (BGsp>STILLsp) | ||||||||||||
| R STG/S and MTG | 54 | −30 | 4 | 205 | 4.10 | <0.036 | ||||||
| R lingual gyrus, calcarine gyrus, and cuneus | 16 | −86 | −2 | 196 | 5.05 | <0.044 | ||||||
| Beat gesture without speech versus Still frame without speech (BGo>STILLo; baseline) | ||||||||||||
| L middle and inferior temporal gyri and middle temporal pole | −42 | 4 | −32 | 190 | 4.66 | <0.011 | ||||||
| L inferior orbital frontal gyrus | −42 | 26 | −14 | 178 | 4.05 | <0.016 | ||||||
| R middle and inferior temporal gyri and middle temporal pole | 54 | 4 | −30 | 166 | 6.05 | <0.022 | ||||||
| Nonsense movement with speech versus Still frame without speech (NONsp>STILLo; baseline) | ||||||||||||
| L superior and middle frontal gyri | −24 | −2 | 60 | 285 | 4.46 | <0.014 | ||||||
x, y, and z = the MNI coordinates (mm) corresponding to the left–right, anterior–posterior, and inferior–superior axes, respectively; t, the highest t-score within a region; thresholded at t > 2.55 (P < 0.01); corrected for multiple comparisons at the cluster level (P < 0.05).