bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.19.452678; this version posted July 19, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 The amplitude of fNIRS hemodynamic response in the visual cortex unmasks 2 autistic traits in typically developing children 3 4 Raffaele Mazziotti1,2‡, Elena Scaffei2,3‡, Eugenia Conti3, Viviana Marchi3, Riccardo Rizzi2,3, 5 Giovanni Cioni3,4, Roberta Battini3,4, Laura Baroncelli1,3* 6 7 [1] Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council (CNR), I-56124, Pisa, Italy 8 [2] Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health NEUROFARBA, University of 9 Florence, I-50135, Florence, Italy 10 [3] Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, I-56128, Pisa, Italy 11 [4] Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy 12 13 *To whom correspondence should be addressed:
[email protected] 14 ‡These authors equally contributed to the work 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.19.452678; this version posted July 19, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license.