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Autistic children’s brains respond less to the emotional meaning of sentences, fMRI study finds

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Summary

When children hear a sentence about someone’s feelings, part of the brain’s language system typically responds more strongly than it does to a sentence about objects. In autistic children, that difference was smaller.

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