FIGURE 3.

Cognitive processes and preferred modes of engagement. Undeveloped complex social functions like mentalizing (Neurosynth reverse inference “mentalizing,” green outline) may leave areas of cortex open to expansion from neighboring cognitive functions that can be mapped to preferred modes-of-engagement for RIs in autism. FDR corrected, reverse inference (likelihood of term given activation) statistical images from neurosynth.org are overlaid on inflated cortical maps using Nilearn for each term in quotes. “Math topic” is Topic number 2 from version 5 (July 2018) of the Neurosynth set of LDA derived topic maps with prominent terms like: problem(s), arithmetic, solving, and calculation. All maps were downloaded in the summer of 2019 (based on 14,371 studies).