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Evidence of Altered Cortical Processing of Dynamic Lexical Tone Pitch Contour in Chinese Children with Autism

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a University of Minnesota Grand Challenges Research Grant, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31728009, 31900775), and a College of Liberal Art Brain Imaging Research Project Award. We thank our participants and their families, as well as the staff and students who assisted with data collection.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China

    Luodi Yu, Dan Huang, Suiping Wang & Yang Chen

  2. South China Normal University Autism Research Center, Guangzhou, 510631, China

    Luodi Yu, Suiping Wang & Yang Chen

  3. Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, USA

    Yang Zhang

  4. Guangzhou Rehabilitation and Research Center for Children with Autism, Guangzhou Cana School, Guangzhou, 510540, China

    Dan Huang & Xueyuan Wu

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Yu, L., Huang, D., Wang, S. et al. Evidence of Altered Cortical Processing of Dynamic Lexical Tone Pitch Contour in Chinese Children with Autism. Neurosci. Bull. 37, 1605–1608 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-021-00752-2

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