Fig. 3.

PPI analyses based on common areas of activity (conjunction seeds). Non-autistic > autistic contrast (in blue): As complexity increased, non-autistic participants exhibited a wider increase in functional connectivity with other elements of the reasoning network for the 3 regions of interest, in comparison with autistic participants. Autistic > non-autistic contrast (in red): As complexity increased, autistic participants showed a higher functional connectivity than non-autistic participants only for the occipital seed, for which they displayed an increase in connectivity between the left inferior occipital gyrus (seed) and areas in the left superior frontal gyrus, right superior parietal lobule, right middle occipital gyrus and right inferior temporal gyrus (p < 0.001, unc.). Green spots indicate seeds.