ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2021
Lifelong Tone Language Experience does not Eliminate Deficits in Neural Encoding of Pitch in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- Emotional Prosody Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Pooled it
- Reduced Context Effect on Lexical Tone Normalization in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Speech-Specific Mechanism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Neurophysiological Evidence for Reduced Use of Prior Sound Patterns to Shape Speech Processing in Autism.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Prosodic Differences in Women with theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Factors influencing timely diagnosis of autism in China: an application of Andersen's behavioral model of health services use.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Attenuated processing of vowels in the left temporal cortex predicts speech-in-noise perception deficit in children with autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2024Article
- How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Review
- Endophenotype trait domains for advancing gene discovery in autism spectrum disorder.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2023Review
- Mental representations of speech and musical pitch contours reveal a diversity of profiles in autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023Article
- Linguistic Tone and Non-Linguistic Pitch Imitation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- A Linear Superposition Model of Envelope and Frequency Following Responses May Help Identify Generators Based on Latency.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Cross-linguistic patterns of speech prosodic differences in autism: A machine learning study.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Atypical pitch processing is a feature of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which affects non-tone language speakers' communication. Lifelong auditory experience has been demonstrated to modify genetically-predisposed risks for pitch processing. We examined individuals with ASD to test the hypothesis that lifelong auditory experience in tone language may eliminate impaired pitch processing in ASD. We examined children's and adults' Frequency-following Response (FFR), a neurophysiological component indexing early neural sensory encoding of pitch. Univariate and machine-learning-based analytics suggest less robust pitch encoding and diminished pitch distinctions in the FFR from individuals with ASD. Contrary to our hypothesis, results point to a linguistic pitch encoding impairment associated with ASD that may not be eliminated even by lifelong sensory experience.
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