Table 4.

Within-subject RSA results in TPJ using valid trials

			Spearman's ρ (mean ± SD)		ppermutation	ppermutationb
			ASD	HC
Neurosynth	lTPJ	Audience	0.026 ± 0.016***	0.025 ± 0.014***	0.848	0.493
		Moral context	0.131 ± 0.069***	0.148 ± 0.054***	0.403	0.493
		Payoff for oneself	−0.005 ± 0.008	−0.002 ± 0.007	0.174	0.271
		Payoff for association	−0.004 ± 0.006	−0.003 ± 0.006	0.413	0.447
	rTPJ	Audience	0.032 ± 0.025***	0.024 ± 0.013***	0.201	0.163
		Moral context	0.101 ± 0.047***	0.150 ± 0.071***	0.013	0.018
		Payoff for oneself	−0.004 ± 0.009	−0.003 ± 0.007	0.723	0.311
		Payoff for association	−0.004 ± 0.010	−0.006 ± 0.009	0.578	0.995
Meta-analysisa	lTPJ	Audience	0.021 ± 0.019***	0.022 ± 0.014***	0.912	0.931
		Moral context	0.112 ± 0.079***	0.100 ± 0.065***	0.566	0.551
		Payoff for oneself	−0.002 ± 0.007	0.0005 ± 0.009	0.304	0.472
		Payoff for association	−0.005 ± 0.005	−0.003 ± 0.007	0.308	0.262
	rTPJ	Audience	0.025 ± 0.022***	0.020 ± 0.014***	0.383	0.230
		Moral context	0.066 ± 0.036***	0.119 ± 0.070***	0.006	0.002
		Payoff for oneself	−0.002 ± 0.008	−0.002 ± 0.007	0.900	0.685
		Payoff for association	−0.003 ± 0.007	−0.003 ± 0.006	0.924	0.400

We excluded trials that did not reach the behavioral criterion (i.e., those with a decision time of <200 ms or longer than the mean ± 3 SDs of that individual) or fMRI criterion (all trials in a run with an excessive head motion: ASD, >5 mm; HC, >3 mm). l, Left; r, right.

^aThese masks were spheres with a radius of 10 mm centering on the MNI coordinates based on a recent meta-analysis involving the mentalizing process (peak MNI coordinates: left TPJ/pSTS: −53/−59/20; right TPJ/pSTS: 56/−56/18).

^bWe added the standardized age as the covariates to the regression, using the lmPerm package.

***These effects are significantly higher than 0 (i.e., one-sample t test with 5000 permutations; p_permutation < 0.001).