ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2020
Elevated Thresholds for Light Touch in Children With Autism Reflect More Conservative Perceptual Decision-Making Rather Than a Sensory Deficit.
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- A novel bias-free approach for robust perceptual threshold estimation.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- A cascading effects model of early sensory development in autism.Psychological review · 2026Review
- Dissociation Between Subjective Sensory Reactivity and Visual Perceptual Sensitivity in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults: A Brief Report.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Using Psychoacoustic Tasks and Multidimensional Questionnaires to Characterize Auditory Hyperreactivity in Autistic Young People.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- A working taxonomy for describing the sensory differences of autism.Molecular autism · 2023Review
- Antivax attitude in the general population along the autism-schizophrenia continuum and the impact of socio-demographic factors.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- A Multidimensional Investigation of Sensory Processing in Autism: Parent- and Self-Report Questionnaires, Psychophysical Thresholds, and Event-Related Potentials in the Auditory and Somatosensory Modalities.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Region-specific elevations of glutamate + glutamine correlate with the sensory symptoms of autism spectrum disorders.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
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Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often behaviorally hyper-reactive to light touch, but it is unclear to what degree this arises from a fundamental sensory difference vs. higher order systems for attention or emotion processing. Thus far, experimental findings for light touch detection are mixed, and few previous studies have independently considered sensitivity (the ability to discriminate signal from noise) and decision criterion (the overall response bias or tendency to answer "yes" or "no" in a detection task). We tested a large sample of children, adolescents, and adults with ASD (
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