ReviewFrontiers in neural circuits2019
Music-Evoked Reward and Emotion: Relative Strengths and Response to Intervention of People With ASD.
Review in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05505019 (The Role of a Personalized Music Intervention Towards Alleviating Apathy in Parkinson's Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Role of a Personalized Music Intervention Towards Alleviating Apathy in Parkinson's Disease
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effect of Longitudinal Practice in Real and Virtual Environments on Motor Performance, Physical Activity and Enjoyment in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Prospective Randomized Crossover Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Why Music Matters: Music-Listening Functions and Motives in Autistic and Non-autistic Adults.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
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- Atypical vocal imitation of speech and song in autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from Mandarin speakers.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Music Therapy as a Tool to Unveil Musical Potential or Hidden Savant in Children with Autism: A Case Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Musical Beat Perception Skills of Autistic and Neurotypical Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- "It is more Important than food sometimes"; Meanings and Functions of Music in the Lives of Autistic Adults Through a hermeneutic-phenomenological Lense.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Centering the Inner Experience of Autism: Development of the Self-Assessment of Autistic Traits.Autism in adulthood · 2023Article
- Music for autism: a protocol for an international randomized crossover trial on music therapy for children with autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Basic emotion recognition of children on the autism spectrum is enhanced in music and typical for faces and voices.PloS one · 2023Article
- Long-term music adjuvant therapy enhances the efficacy of sub-dose antiepileptic drugs in temporal lobe epilepsy.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2022Article
- Parental Responsiveness During Musical and Non-Musical Engagement in Preschoolers with ASD.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2020Article
- Links Between the Neurobiology of Oxytocin and Human Musicality.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Review
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Abstract
This review presents research findings showing that music is a unique domain to assess perception, reward, emotion, and associated physiological reactions and neural circuitry of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). There is growing evidence, reported in several studies in this review article, indicating that music is a relative strength of people with ASD including musical pitch perception, musical memory, and identification of music-evoked emotions. Listening to music activates neural circuits of reward and emotion response, which are described. Research presented shows adults with ASD also activate these systems when listening to music, although there may be developmental differences in the physiological and neural response to music in childhood and adolescence alongside typical behavioral response. Nonetheless, studies reviewed lend support to the use of music therapy and education for people with ASD, specifically to improve social skills and communication. Neural correlates of response to music therapy and education are also discussed. Taken together, findings reviewed provide evidence for music as a strength-based approach for ASD to assess reward and emotion response and as a powerful tool for intervention.
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