ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2016
Social functioning and autonomic nervous system sensitivity across vocal and musical emotion in Williams syndrome and autism spectrum disorder.
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- The effect of music interventions in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and auditory sensory alterations: a systematic review on the integrity of cognitive and neuronal functions related to auditory processing.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Scientific Studies on the Effects of Music in People with or at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Why Music Matters: Music-Listening Functions and Motives in Autistic and Non-autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Sensory Gating in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Auditory affective processing, musicality, and the development of misophonic reactions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Integrated DNA methylation analysis reveals a potential role for ANKRD30B in Williams syndrome.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Neuroanatomical correlates of emotion-processing in children with unilateral brain lesion: A preliminary study of limbic system organization.Social neuroscience · 2018Article
- Psychophysiological Arousal and Auditory Sensitivity in a Cross-Clinical Sample of Autistic and Non-autistic Anxious Adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Williams Syndrome and Music: A Systematic Integrative Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Overview of Social Cognitive Dysfunctions in Rare Developmental Syndromes With Psychiatric Phenotype.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2018Review
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Abstract
Both Williams syndrome (WS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with unusual auditory phenotypes with respect to processing vocal and musical stimuli, which may be shaped by the atypical social profiles that characterize the syndromes. Autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity to vocal and musical emotional stimuli was examined in 12 children with WS, 17 children with ASD, and 20 typically developing (TD) children, and related to their level of social functioning. The results of this small-scale study showed that after controlling for between-group differences in cognitive ability, all groups showed similar emotion identification performance across conditions. Additionally, in ASD, lower autonomic reactivity to human voice, and in TD, to musical emotion, was related to more normal social functioning. Compared to TD, both clinical groups showed increased arousal to vocalizations. A further result highlighted uniquely increased arousal to music in WS, contrasted with a decrease in arousal in ASD and TD. The ASD and WS groups exhibited arousal patterns suggestive of diminished habituation to the auditory stimuli. The results are discussed in the context of the clinical presentation of WS and ASD.
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