ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2020
A Nexus Model of Restricted Interests in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- How Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation Impact Cognitive Flexibility in Children With Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Do focused interests support word learning? A study with autistic and nonautistic children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Profiles of circumscribed interests in autistic youth.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Autistic people outperform neurotypicals in a cartoon version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Toward better characterization of restricted and unusual interests in youth with autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2022Article
- Novel Cognitive Functions Arise at the Convergence of Macroscale Gradients.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2022Review
- Anhedonia and Hyperhedonia in Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022Article
- Attention to Face as a Predictor of Developmental Change and Treatment Outcome in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Biomedicines · 2021Article
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Abstract
Restricted interests (RIs) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are clinically impairing interests of unusual focus or intensity. They are a subtype of restricted and repetitive behaviors which are one of two diagnostic criteria for the disorder. Despite the near ubiquity of RIs in ASD, the neural basis for their development is not well understood. However, recent cognitive neuroscience findings from nonclinical samples and from individuals with ASD shed light on neural mechanisms that may explain the emergence of RIs. We propose the nexus model of RIs in ASD, a novel conceptualization of this symptom domain that suggests that RIs may reflect a co-opting of brain systems that typically serve to integrate complex attention, memory, semantic, and social communication functions during development. The nexus model of RIs hypothesizes that when social communicative development is compromised, brain functions typically located within the lateral surface of cortex may expand into social processing brain systems and alter cortical representations of various cognitive functions during development. These changes, in turn, promote the development of RIs as an alternative process mediated by these brain networks. The nexus model of RIs makes testable predictions about reciprocal relations between the impaired development of social communication and the emergence of RIs in ASD and suggests novel avenues for treatment development.
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