Madeline Peterson

Family, Home, and Social Sciences; Psychology https://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/ Peterson, Madeline, "Estimating Hemispheric Specialization in Autistic and Neurotypical Individuals" (2023). Theses and Dissertations. 10495.

Abstract One organizing principle of the human brain is hemispheric specialization, or the dominance of a specific function or cognitive process in one hemisphere or the other. Previously, Wang et al. (2014) identified networks putatively associated with language and attention as being specialized to the left and right hemispheres, respectively; and a dual-specialization of the executive control network.

Abstract Background: Autism spectrum disorder has been linked to a variety of organizational and developmental deviations in the brain. One such organizational difference involves hemispheric lateralization, which may be localized to language-relevant regions of the brain or distributed more broadly. Methods: In the present study, we estimated brain hemispheric lateralization in autism based on each participant's unique functional neuroanatomy rather than relying on group-averaged data.