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ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2017

Event-related potential response to auditory social stimuli, parent-reported social communicative deficits and autism risk in school-aged children with congenital visual impairment.

Joe Bathelt, Naomi Dale, Michelle de Haan

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Article in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Auditory Sensitivity in Autism: A Systematic Review of Mismatch Negativity and Mismatch Field Responses.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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  2. Intact Neural Responding to Hearing One's Own Name in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026
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  5. How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Joe BatheltMRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Electronic address: joe.bathelt@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.
Naomi DaleDevelopmental Vision Clinic, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom; Developmental Neurosciences, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, United Kingdom.
Michelle de HaanDevelopmental Neurosciences, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, United Kingdom.
Great Ormond Street Hospital · GBUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0300117Medical Research Council G1002276Medical Research Council MC_UP_A060_1103Medical Research Council MC_UU_00005/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Communication with visual signals, like facial expression, is important in early social development, but the question if these signals are necessary for typical social development remains to be addressed. The potential impact on social development of being born with no or very low levels of vision is therefore of high theoretical and clinical interest. The current study investigated event-related potential responses to basic social stimuli in a rare group of school-aged children with congenital visual disorders of the anterior visual system (globe of the eye, retina, anterior optic nerve). Early-latency event-related potential responses showed no difference between the VI and control group, suggesting similar initial auditory processing. However, the mean amplitude over central and right frontal channels between 280 and 320ms was reduced in response to own-name stimuli, but not control stimuli, in children with VI suggesting differences in social processing. Children with VI also showed an increased rate of autistic-related behaviours, pragmatic language deficits, as well as peer relationship and emotional problems on standard parent questionnaires. These findings suggest that vision may be necessary for the typical development of social processing across modalities.

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Acoustic StimulationAdolescentAutistic DisorderChildEvoked PotentialsFemaleHumansMaleParentsReaction TimeRiskSocial ChangeVision DisordersAutism spectrum disorderChildhoodEvent-related potentialsSocial developmentVisual impairment

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PMID28756186
PMCPMC6597362
OpenAlexW2737933398

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