| Budget Amount *help |
¥42,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥33,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥10,010,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,310,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥11,180,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,580,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥11,050,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,550,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥10,660,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,460,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present study aimed to reveal typical and atypical development of language and social cognitive abilities and their correlates of cerebral substrates in human infants. Further, we tried to extract early marker of developmental disabilities such as autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) by correlating early neural and behavioral markers and later general development. To this end, we examined typically developing infants (TD) and infants-at-risk for ASD longitudinally from their age of 3 months-old to 3-years-old. One of our aims of the study was to construct a cohort of infant-at-risk and we successfully recruited about 80 infants for our cohort who participated in our longitudinal experiments. The results showed various group differences in brain connectivity and responses and eye movement between TD and ASD groups. Furthermore, we found some candidates of early behavioral markers for developmental disabilities which involve fine-motor movements and responsiveness to social cues.
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