ArticleExperimental brain research2018
Neuromotor and cognitive responses of adults with autism spectrum disorder compared to neurotypical adults.
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- Motor imagery in autism: a systematic review.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Slower Processing Speed in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-analytic Investigation of Time-Based Tasks.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Gross motor impairment and its relation to social skills in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and two meta-analyses.Psychological bulletinPooled it
- No added cost: Emotion recognition in co-occurring ADHD and ASD.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Motor Variability of Circular Movements Reveals Differences in Non-Dominant Hand and Foot Control in Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Intact but Protracted Facial and Prosodic Emotion Recognition Among Autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Autistic Trait Level and Reaction Time in Older Adults: The Influence of Sex and Task upon Study Outcome.Autism in adulthood · 2026Article
- Finding the forest in the trees: Using machine learning and online cognitive and perceptual measures to predict adult autism diagnosis.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Slow but Steady: Similarities and Differences in Executive Functioning Between Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Attention, Sensory Processing, and Social Responsiveness Among Adults on the Autism Spectrum.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Attention and sensory integration for gait in young adults with autism spectrum disorder.Gait & posture · 2024Article
- Autistic Adults Show Intact Learning on a Visuospatial Serial Reaction Time Task.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Beyond words: an investigation of fine motor skills and the verbal communication spectrum in autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Atypical Tactile Perception in Early Childhood Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
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- Autistic traits are associated with individual differences in finger tapping: an online study.PeerJ · 2023Article
- From "one big clumsy mess" to "a fundamental part of my character." Autistic adults' experiences of motor coordination.PloS one · 2023Article
- Gamma oscillations point to the role of primary visual cortex in atypical motion processing in autism.PloS one · 2023Article
- Combined Gait and Grasping in Autistic and Non-Autistic Youths.Developmental neurorehabilitation · 2022Article
- Motor signature of autism spectrum disorder in adults without intellectual impairment.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder, whose core symptom domains include impaired social communication and narrowed interests and/or repetitive behaviors; in addition, deficits of general cognition, neuromotor function, and movement ability can be observed. This study was designed to examine differences in neuromotor and cognitive functions for a group of young adults with ASD and age-matched controls. It was also of interest to assess whether changes in the intra-individual variability (IIV) of these selected neuromotor and cognitive tasks also occurred. Increased IIV in persons with ASD may reveal important organizational features of their neuromotor system that differ from neurotypical controls. Twenty neurotypical adult individuals (24.3 ± 2.8 years) and twenty adults with a clinician-assigned diagnosis of ASD (21.2 ± 4.4 years) participated in this study. Specific cognitive and motor assessments included Trails Making Tests A&B, Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Purdue Pegboard Test, simple reaction time, finger tapping, hand grip strength, balance, and gait. Results revealed that the ASD adults exhibited decreased upper limb strength and slower responses for finger tapping, hand dexterity, reaction times, and gait compared to the non-ASD controls. The general slowing of motor responses for the persons with ASD was also associated with increased within-subject variability during the reaction time, finger tapping, hand grip, and gait assessments compared to neurotypical adults, illustrating that IIV measures may be a useful marker of widespread neuromotor dysfunction for adults with ASD. Overall, these findings are consistent with clinical observations that abnormalities of movement performance and cognitive performance are an associated feature of ASD in young adults.
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