Universität zu Köln

Hemmers, Julia, Baethge, Christopher, Vogeley, Kai ORCID: 0000-0002-5891-5831 and Falter-Wagner, Christine M. (2022). Are Executive Dysfunctions Relevant for the Autism-Specific Cognitive Profile? Front. Psychiatry, 13. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA. ISSN 1664-0640

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Abstract

Executive functions (EF) have been shown to be important for the understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but dysfunctions of EF are not autism-specific. The specific role of EF in ASD, its relationship to core autism characteristics, such as mentalizing, needs to be explored. Medline- and PsychINFO databases were searched for studies published between 1990 and 2020 that included measures of EF in ASD and typically developing control persons (TD) in combination with either Theory of Mind (ToM) or Weak Central Coherence (WCC) tasks. A pre-registered meta-analysis and cross-study regression was performed including a total of 42 studies (ASD n = 1,546, TD n = 1,206). Results were reported according to PRISMA guidelines. In all cognitive domains, the ASD group showed significantly reduced performance. Importantly, EF subdomains and ToM were not significantly correlated. This finding rules out a significant association between EF subdomains and ToM and questions the relevance of EF dysfunctions for the autism-specific feature of reduced mentalizing.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hemmers, Julia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Baethge, Christopher UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Vogeley, Kai UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5891-5831 UNSPECIFIED Falter-Wagner, Christine M. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-675636
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyt.2022.886588
Journal or Publication Title:	Front. Psychiatry
Volume:	13
Date:	2022
Publisher:	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
Place of Publication:	LAUSANNE
ISSN:	1664-0640
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language HIGH-FUNCTIONING AUTISM; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES; WEAK CENTRAL COHERENCE; SPECTRUM DISORDERS; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; INHIBITORY CONTROL; ASPERGERS SYNDROME; WORKING-MEMORY; MIND; CHILDREN Multiple languages Psychiatry Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/67563