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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2024

"Neural Noise" in Auditory Responses in Young Autistic and Neurotypical Children.

Patrick Dwyer, Svjetlana Vukusic, Zachary J Williams, Clifford D Saron, Susan M Rivera

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Forwarding the Science of Sensory Features in Autism and Related Conditions.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024
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  5. Habituation of auditory responses in young autistic and neurotypical children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Patrick DwyerDepartment of Psychology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA. patricksrdwyer@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1779-5252
Svjetlana VukusicCenter for Mind and Brain, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Zachary J WilliamsMedical Scientist Training Program, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7646-423X
Clifford D Saron *Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2280-4996
Susan M Rivera *Department of Psychology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
UC Davis Health · USUniversity of California, Davis · USVanderbilt University · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007347 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER S. · 1985 to 2023
$26.3M
Specifying and Treating the Anxiety Phenotype in Autism Spectrum DisorderP50HD093079 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI AMARAL, DAVID G · 2017 to 2021
$11.4M
Research Project: Pathologic Significance of Maternal AutoantibodiesP50HD103526 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI LEONARD J. ABBEDUTO, Melissa Dawn Bauman · 2020 to 2026
$9.7M
Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM152284 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Christopher S. Williams · 2024 to 2026
$4.8M
Interdisciplinary Investigation of Biological Signatures of Autism SubtypesR01MH089626 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI AMARAL, DAVID G, ROGERS, SALLY J · 2009 to 2010
$2.8M
Investigating the Phenomenology and Physiologic Underpinnings of Decreased Sound Tolerance in Adults with Autism Spectrum DisorderF30DC019510 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAMS, ZACHARY JAMES · 2021 to 2024
$163k
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD093079NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD103526NIDCD NIH HHS F30 DC019510NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007347NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM152284NIH HHS 1RO1 MH089626NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH089626
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Elevated "neural noise" has been advanced as an explanation of autism and autistic sensory experiences. However, functional neuroimaging measures of neural noise may be vulnerable to contamination by recording noise. This study explored variability of electrophysiological responses to tones of different intensities in 127 autistic and 79 typically-developing children aged 2-5 years old. A rigorous data processing pipeline, including advanced visualizations of different signal sources that were maximally independent across different time lags, was used to identify and eliminate putative recording noise. Inter-trial variability was measured using median absolute deviations (MADs) of EEG amplitudes across trials and inter-trial phase coherence (ITPC). ITPC was elevated in autism in the 50 and 60 dB intensity conditions, suggesting diminished (rather than elevated) neural noise in autism, although reduced ITPC to soft 50 dB sounds was associated with increased loudness discomfort. Autistic and non-autistic participants did not differ in MADs, and indeed, the vast majority of the statistical tests examined in this study yielded no significant effects. These results appear inconsistent with the neural noise account.

Indexed as

Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderChildChild, PreschoolElectroencephalographyHumansNoiseAutismElectroencephalographyInter-trial phase coherence (ITPC)Inter-trial variabilityLoudness discomfortNeural noiseSensory processing

Identifiers

PMID36434480
PMCPMC10209352
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