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Bestelmeyer, Patricia E. G., Williams, Bethan, Lawton, Jennifer J., Stefanou, Maria-Elena, Koldewyn, Kami ORCID: 0000-0003-3588-6449, Klein, Christoph and Biscaldi, Monica (2018). Adaptation to Vocal Expressions and Phonemes Is Intact in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Clin. Psychol. Sci., 6 (3). S. 372 - 382. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 2167-7034

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Abstract

Several recent studies have demonstrated reduced visual aftereffects, particularly to social stimuli, in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This putative impairment of the adaptive mechanism in ASD has been put forward as a possible explanation for some of the core social problems experienced by children with ASD (e.g., facial emotion or identity recognition). We addressed this claim in children with ASD and typically developing children by using an established methodology and morphed auditory stimulus set for eliciting robust aftereffects to vocal expressions and phonemes. Although children with ASD were significantly worse at categorizing the vocal expressions compared with the control stimuli (phoneme categorization), aftereffect sizes in both tasks were identical in the two participant groups. Our finding suggests that the adaptation mechanism is not universally impaired in ASD and is therefore not an explanation for the social perception difficulties in ASD.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bestelmeyer, Patricia E. G. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Williams, Bethan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Lawton, Jennifer J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Stefanou, Maria-Elena UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Koldewyn, Kami UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3588-6449 UNSPECIFIED Klein, Christoph UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Biscaldi, Monica UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-187860
DOI:	10.1177/2167702617748401
Journal or Publication Title:	Clin. Psychol. Sci.
Volume:	6
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 372 - 382
Date:	2018
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	2167-7034
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS; EMOTION RECOGNITION; AUDITORY ADAPTATION; FACE ADAPTATION; PERCEPTION; CHILDREN; IDENTITY; ADULTS; VOICES; SEX Multiple languages Psychology, Clinical Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/18786