ReviewFrontiers in psychology2017
Reinforcement Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- Management of critical care emergencies in children with autism spectrum disorder.World journal of critical care medicine · 2025Article
- Autistic traits relate to reduced reward sensitivity in learning from point-light displays (PLDs).Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Altered trial-to-trial responses to reward outcomes in KCNMA1 knockout mice during probabilistic learning tasks.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2024Article
- Managing Aggressive Behavior in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Approaches.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Review
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- Motivation from Agency and Reward in Typical Development and Autism: Narrative Review of Behavioral and Neural Evidence.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Autism interest intensity in early childhood associates with executive functioning but not reward sensitivity or anxiety symptoms.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2022Article
- Toward automatic motivator selection for autism behavior intervention therapy.Universal access in the information society · 2022Article
- Building Self-Efficacy in Parenting Adult Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorder: An Initial Investigation of a Two-Pronged Approach in Role Competence.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Addressing mealtime behaviours of children with autism spectrum disorders in schools: a qualitative study with educators in Mumbai, India.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2022Article
- What Is Social about Autism? The Role of Allostasis-Driven Learning.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Modeling flexible behavior in childhood to adulthood shows age-dependent learning mechanisms and less optimal learning in autism in each age group.PLoS biology · 2020Article
- Learning with individual-interest outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Early behavioral interventions are recognized as integral to standard care in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and often focus on reinforcing desired behaviors (e.g., eye contact) and reducing the presence of atypical behaviors (e.g., echoing others' phrases). However, efficacy of these programs is mixed. Reinforcement learning relies on neurocircuitry that has been reported to be atypical in ASD: prefrontal-sub-cortical circuits, amygdala, brainstem, and cerebellum. Thus, early behavioral interventions rely on neurocircuitry that may function atypically in at least a subset of individuals with ASD. Recent work has investigated physiological, behavioral, and neural responses to reinforcers to uncover differences in motivation and learning in ASD. We will synthesize this work to identify promising avenues for future research that ultimately can be used to enhance the efficacy of early intervention.
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