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Temporal processing deficit in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: An online assessment.

Agnes S Chan, Zihan Ding, Tsz-Lok Lee, Sophia L Sze, Mei-Chun Cheung

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Article in Digital health. 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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7 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Agnes S ChanNeuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3321-182X
Zihan DingNeuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5921-137X
Tsz-Lok LeeNeuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5993-0315
Sophia L SzeNeuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Mei-Chun CheungDepartment of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0210-0772
Chinese University of Hong Kong · HK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: The sensory deficit has been considered as one of the core features in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study aimed to examine the temporal processing of simple and more complex auditory inputs in ASD children and adolescents with an online assessment that can be conducted remotely. Methods: One hundred fifty-eight children and adolescents aged 5-17 years participated in this study, including 79 ASD participants and 79 typically developing (TD) participants. The online assessment consisted of two temporal-order judgment tasks that required repeating the sequence of two pure tones or consonant-vowel (CV) syllabic pairs at varying interstimulus intervals (ISIs). Results: Significantly lower accuracy rates were found in ASD than TD participants in the pure tone and the CV conditions with both short and long ISI. In addition, ASD participants ( Conclusion: In sum, children and adolescents with ASD showed impaired temporal processing of both simple and more complex auditory stimuli, and the online assessment seems to be sensitive in differentiating individuals with ASD from those with TD.

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assessmentautism spectrum disorderconsonant–vowel syllablepure tonetemporal-order judgmentTemporal processing

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PMCPMC10134192
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