ArticleNeuropsychology2015
Deficits in auditory processing contribute to impairments in vocal affect recognition in autism spectrum disorders: A MEG study.
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Examining Affective Prosody Recognition Among Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders and the Effectiveness of an Auditory Intervention Using a Mobile App
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Emotional Prosody Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Pooled it
- Cortical Auditory Processing of Simple Stimuli Is Altered in Autism: A Meta-analysis of Auditory Evoked Responses.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2021Pooled it
- MEG resting state alpha and beta band functional connectivity in male children with autism and sensory processing dysfunction.Journal of neural engineering · 2026Article
- Vocal and social impairments in songbirds embryonically exposed to an autism risk factor.iScience · 2026Article
- Auditory processing and communication in autism: exploring verbal abilities and vocal affective cues.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Effect of Attention on Auditory Processing in Adults on the Autism Spectrum.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
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- Towards Biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Contributions of Magnetoencephalography (MEG).Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Strong Relationship Between Rapid Auditory Processing and Affective Prosody Recognition Among Adults with High Autistic Traits.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Sensory Gating in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Rapid auditory processing of puretones is associated with basic components of language in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.Brain and language · 2023Article
- Associations between rapid auditory processing of speech sounds and specific verbal communication skills in autism.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder: opportunities for magnetoencephalography (MEG).Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2021Review
- Improving Emotion Perception in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Computer-Based Training and Hearing Amplification.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Delayed Auditory Evoked Responses in Autism Spectrum Disorder across the Life Span.Developmental neuroscience · 2019Article
- The impact of atypical sensory processing on social impairments in autism spectrum disorder.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2018Review
- Children with autism spectrum disorder have reduced otoacoustic emissions at the 1 kHz mid-frequency region.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2017Article
- Magnetoencephalographic Imaging of Auditory and Somatosensory Cortical Responses in Children with Autism and Sensory Processing Dysfunction.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Relations Between Nonverbal and Verbal Social Cognitive Skills and Complex Social Behavior in Children and Adolescents with Autism.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2016Article
- Building Blocks of Others' Understanding: A Perspective Shift in Investigating Social-Communicative Deficit in Autism.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe primary aim of this study was to examine whether there is an association between magnetoencephalography-based (MEG) indices of basic cortical auditory processing and vocal affect recognition (VAR) ability in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
methodMEG data were collected from 25 children/adolescents with ASD and 12 control participants using a paired-tone paradigm to measure quality of auditory physiology, sensory gating, and rapid auditory processing. Group differences were examined in auditory processing and vocal affect recognition ability. The relationship between differences in auditory processing and vocal affect recognition deficits was examined in the ASD group.
resultsReplicating prior studies, participants with ASD showed longer M1n latencies and impaired rapid processing compared with control participants. These variables were significantly related to VAR, with the linear combination of auditory processing variables accounting for approximately 30% of the variability after controlling for age and language skills in participants with ASD.
conclusionsVAR deficits in ASD are typically interpreted as part of a core, higher order dysfunction of the "social brain"; however, these results suggest they also may reflect basic deficits in auditory processing that compromise the extraction of socially relevant cues from the auditory environment. As such, they also suggest that therapeutic targeting of sensory dysfunction in ASD may have additional positive implications for other functional deficits.
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