ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2023
Mental representations of speech and musical pitch contours reveal a diversity of profiles in autism spectrum disorder.
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- The effect of music interventions in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Sensory Processing of Time and Space in Autistic Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Music Education for Autistic Children with Intellectual Disability: Parental Attitudes and Support.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Linguistic and Musical Syntax Processing in Autistic and Non-Autistic Individuals: An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Study.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- A simple psychophysical procedure separates representational and noise components in impairments of speech prosody perception after right-hemisphere stroke.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Enhanced sensitivity to pitch perception and its possible relation to language acquisition in autism.Autism & developmental language impairmentsReview
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Abstract
lay abstractAs a key auditory attribute of sounds, pitch is ubiquitous in our everyday listening experience involving language, music and environmental sounds. Given its critical role in auditory processing related to communication, numerous studies have investigated pitch processing in autism spectrum disorder. However, the findings have been mixed, reporting either enhanced, typical or impaired performance among autistic individuals. By investigating top-down comparisons of internal mental representations of pitch contours in speech and music, this study shows for the first time that, while autistic individuals exhibit diverse profiles of pitch processing compared to non-autistic individuals, their mental representations of pitch contours are typical across domains. These findings suggest that pitch-processing mechanisms are shared across domains in autism spectrum disorder and provide theoretical implications for using music to improve speech for those autistic individuals who have language problems.
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