About the Authors

Namhee Kim

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Prem K. Goel

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Madalina E. Tivarus

Affiliation Department of Imaging Science and the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Ashleigh Hillier

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Q. Beversdorf

beversdorfd@health.missouri.edu

Affiliations Departments of Radiology, Neurology and Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, The Thompson Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

This study was funded in part by the National Alliance for Autism Research (now Autism Speaks), which is a privately funded research foundation. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MET AH DQB. Performed the experiments: MET AH DQB. Analyzed the data: NK PG MET DQB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK PG. Wrote the paper: NK PG DQB.