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Altered neuronal habituation to hearing others' pain in adults with autistic traits.
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- Differential responses to group and individual emotional voices: a behavioral and ERP study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Altered processing of consecutive changeable emotional voices in individuals with autistic traits: behavioral and ERP studies.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- The relationship between autistic traits and the stress of social isolation: Development of an explanatory model.Heliyon · 2024Article
- The Empathy for Pain Stimuli System (EPSS): Development and preliminary validation.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Intact painful sensation but enhanced non-painful sensation in individuals with autistic traits.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Empathy for pain in individuals with autistic traits during observation of static and dynamic stimuli.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Altered Processing of Social Emotions in Individuals With Autistic Traits.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Processing of expressions by individuals with autistic traits: Empathy deficit or sensory hyper-reactivity?PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study tested the hypothesis that autistic traits influence the neuronal habituation that underlies the processing of others' pain. Based on their autism-spectrum quotient (AQ), two groups of participants were classified according to their autistic traits: High-AQ and Low-AQ groups. Their event-related potentials in response to trains of three identical audio recordings, exhibiting either painful or neutral feelings of others, were compared during three experimental tasks. (1) In a Pain Judgment Task, participants were instructed to focus on pain-related cues in the presented audio recordings. (2) In a Gender Judgment Task, participants were instructed to focus on non-pain-related cues in the presented audio recordings. (3) In a Passive Listening Task, participants were instructed to passively listen. In the High-AQ group, an altered empathic pattern of habituation, indexed by frontal-central P2 responses of the second repeated painful audio recordings, was found during the Passive Listening Task. Nevertheless, both High-AQ and Low-AQ groups exhibited similar patterns of habituation to hearing others' voices, both neutral and painful, in the Pain Judgment and Gender Judgment Tasks. These results suggest altered empathic neuronal habituation in the passive processing of others' vocal pain by individuals with autistic traits.
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