This project aims to rigorously examine the effects of labyrinth practice, and to identify psychological and physiological mechanisms that might mediate the practice and outcomes, monitoring factors that might moderate these effects. 

Atypical face processing is commonly reported in autism. Its neural correlates have been explored extensively across single neuroimaging modalities within key regions of the face processing network, such as the fusiform gyrus (FFG). Nonetheless, it is poorly understood how variation in brain anatomy and function jointly impacts face processing and social functioning. A large multimodal sample was leveraged to study the cross-modal signature of face processing within the FFG across four imaging modalities in 204 autistic and nonautistic individuals aged 7–30 years (case–control design). Two methodological innovations—normative modeling and linked independent component analysis—were combined to integrate individual-level deviations across modalities and assessed how multimodal components differentiated groups and informed social functioning in autism...