A failure of left temporal cortex to specialize for language is an early emerging and fundamental property of autism.

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Published in Brain on February 20, 2012

Authors

Lisa T Eyler1, Karen Pierce, Eric Courchesne

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1: UCSD Autism Center of Excellence, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. lteyler@ucsd.edu

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