ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2017
Action-based touch observation in adults with high functioning autism: Can compromised self-other distinction abilities link social and sensory everyday problems?
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- The active self in autism: multisensory and sensorimotor foundations of bodily self-representation.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Innovative Digital Phenotyping Method to Assess Body Representations in Autistic Adults: A Perspective on Multisensor Evaluation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Confrontation with others' emotions changes bodily resonance differently in those with low and high levels of depersonalization.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Correlation and predictive ability of sensory characteristics and social interaction in children with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Self/other distinction in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) assessed with a double mirror paradigm.PloS one · 2023Article
- Stop Making Noise! Auditory Sensitivity in Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: Physiological Habituation and Subjective Detection Thresholds.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- Disentangling Neural Sources of the Motor Interference Effect in High Functioning Autism: An EEG-Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
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Abstract
Next to social problems, individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often report severe sensory difficulties. Altered processing of touch is however a stronger mediator of social symptoms' severity than altered processing of for instance vision or audition. Why is this the case? We reasoned that sensory difficulties may be linked to social problems in ASD through insufficient self-other distinction centred on touch. We investigated by means of EEG whether the brain of adults with ASD adequately signals when a tactile consequence of an observed action does not match own touch, as compared to the brain of matched controls. We employed the action-based somatosensory congruency paradigm. Participants observed a human or wooden hand touching a surface, combined with a tap-like tactile sensation that either matched or mismatched the tactile consequence of the observed movement. The ASD group showed a diminished congruency effect for human hands only in the P3-complex, suggesting difficulties with signalling observed action-based touch of others that does not match own touch experiences. Crucially, this effect reliably correlated with self-reported social and sensory everyday difficulties in ASD. The findings might denote a novel theoretical link between sensory and social impairments in the autism spectrum.
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