Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures
Abstract Autism is strongly associated with sensory processing difficulties. We investigate sensory habituation, given its relevance for understanding important phenotypic traits like hyper- and hypo-sensitivities. We collected electroencephalography data from 22 neuro-typical(NT) and...
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| author | Jamal, Wasifa Cardinaux, Annie Haskins, Amanda J. Kjelgaard, Margaret Sinha, Pawan |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Jamal, Wasifa Cardinaux, Annie Haskins, Amanda J. Kjelgaard, Margaret Sinha, Pawan |
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Autism is strongly associated with sensory processing difficulties. We investigate sensory habituation, given its relevance for understanding important phenotypic traits like hyper- and hypo-sensitivities. We collected electroencephalography data from 22 neuro-typical(NT) and 13 autistic(ASD) children during the presentation of visual and auditory sequences of repeated stimuli. Our data show that the ASD children have significantly reduced habituation relative to the NT children for both auditory and visual stimuli. These results point to impaired habituation as a modality-general phenomenon in ASD. Additionally, the rates of habituation are correlated with several clinical scores associated with competence along diverse phenotypic dimensions. These data suggest that the sensory difficulties in autism are likely to be associated with reduced habituation and are related to clinical symptomology. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1368612023-02-24T16:49:14Z Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures Jamal, Wasifa Cardinaux, Annie Haskins, Amanda J. Kjelgaard, Margaret Sinha, Pawan Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Abstract Autism is strongly associated with sensory processing difficulties. We investigate sensory habituation, given its relevance for understanding important phenotypic traits like hyper- and hypo-sensitivities. We collected electroencephalography data from 22 neuro-typical(NT) and 13 autistic(ASD) children during the presentation of visual and auditory sequences of repeated stimuli. Our data show that the ASD children have significantly reduced habituation relative to the NT children for both auditory and visual stimuli. These results point to impaired habituation as a modality-general phenomenon in ASD. Additionally, the rates of habituation are correlated with several clinical scores associated with competence along diverse phenotypic dimensions. These data suggest that the sensory difficulties in autism are likely to be associated with reduced habituation and are related to clinical symptomology. 2021-11-01T14:33:50Z 2021-11-01T14:33:50Z 2020-11-11 2021-08-08T03:28:30Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136861 en https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04780-1 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature application/pdf Springer US Springer US |
| spellingShingle | Jamal, Wasifa Cardinaux, Annie Haskins, Amanda J. Kjelgaard, Margaret Sinha, Pawan Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures |
| title | Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures |
| title_full | Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures |
| title_fullStr | Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures |
| title_short | Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures |
| title_sort | reduced sensory habituation in autism and its correlation with behavioral measures |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136861 |
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