ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2018
Autism Spectrum Traits Linked with Reduced Performance on Self-Report Behavioural Measures of Cognitive Flexibility.
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- How to Improve Cognitive Flexibility: Evidence From Noninvasive Neuromodulation Techniques.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Review
- Social aloofness is associated with non-social explore-exploit decisions.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Disentangling the association between cognitive flexibility and anxiety in autistic youth: real-world flexibility versus performance-based task switching.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The effect of e-cigarettes on cognitive function: a scoping review.Psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Neuropsychological profile of executive functions in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a comparative group study in adults.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Inner Speech Moderates the Relationship Between Autism Spectrum Traits and Emotion Regulation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Brief Report: Associations Between Cognitive Control Processes and Traits of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Anxiety in Children at Elevated and Typical Familial Likelihood for ASD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- The Gap Between Cognition and Adaptive Behavior in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Implications for Social Anxiety and the Moderating Effect of Autism Traits.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Bilingualism Effects on the Cognitive Flexibility of Autistic Children: Evidence From Verbal Dual-Task Paradigms.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Article
- Atypical Neural Responses of Cognitive Flexibility in Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Rigidity coincides with reduced cognitive control to affective cues in children with autism.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2019Article
- Action Semantic Deficits and Impaired Motor Skills in Autistic Adults Without Intellectual Impairment.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Deficits in cognitive flexibility are thought to underpin the core symptom of repetitive and restricted patterns of behaviour in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Studies investigating this relationship, however, report inconsistent results. This is partly due to the variable nature of measures used to assess the construct of flexibility. The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether ASD traits differentially predict cognitive flexibility performance on lab-based neurocognitive measures relative to behavioural self-reports in a non-clinical sample of young adults. Our results indicate that ASD traits exclusively predict performance on behavioural self-reports of cognitive flexibility. These findings highlight the possibility that behavioural self-reports are a better index than lab-based neurocognitive measures to capture cognitive flexibility impairments in individuals with ASD.
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