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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2015 Sep;45(9):3030–3040. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2467-9

Table 2.

Partial Pearson R correlations between manual motor performance and fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diflusivity (MD) of white matter tracts within the ASD group, controlling for age.

Grip Tap
Inferior Corticospinal FA +.39*** +.36**
Inferior Corticospinal MD −.37** −.18*
Inferior Cerebellar Peduncle FA +.16 +.20
Inferior Cerebellar Peduncle MD −.09 −.21
Superior Cerebellar Peduncle FA +.17 +.37**
Superior Cerebellar Peduncle MD −.06 −.27*
Middle Cerebellar Peduncle FA −.06 +.07
Middle Cerebellar Peduncle MD −.18 −.18
Posterior Limb of Internal Capsule FA +.08 +.11
Posterior Limb of Internal Capsule MD −.09 −.18
Whole Brain Mean FA +.20 +.38**

Note:

*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001