eprintid: 1559692
rev_number: 30
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2017-06-18 00:08:19
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Lawson, RP
creators_name: Aylward, J
creators_name: Roiser, JP
creators_name: Rees, G
title: Adaptation of social and non-social cues to direction in adults with autism spectrum disorder and neurotypical adults with autistic traits
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D05
divisions: F69
divisions: C08
keywords: Adaptation, Autism, Autistic traits, Directional cues, Sensory processing, Social cues
note: Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).
abstract: Perceptual constancy strongly relies on adaptive gain control mechanisms, which shift perception as a function of recent sensory history. Here we examined the extent to which individual differences in magnitude of adaptation aftereffects for social and non-social directional cues are related to autistic traits and sensory sensitivity in healthy participants (Experiment 1); and also whether adaptation for social and non-social directional cues is differentially impacted in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) relative to neurotypical (NT) controls (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, individuals with lower susceptibility to adaptation aftereffects, i.e. more 'veridical' perception, showed higher levels of autistic traits across social and non-social stimuli. Furthermore, adaptation aftereffects were predictive of sensory sensitivity. In Experiment 2, only adaptation to eye-gaze was diminished in adults with ASD, and this was related to difficulties categorizing eye-gaze direction at baseline. Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) scores negatively predicted lower adaptation for social (head and eye-gaze direction) but not non-social (chair) stimuli. These results suggest that the relationship between adaptation and the broad socio-cognitive processing style captured by 'autistic traits' may be relatively domain-general, but in adults with ASD diminished adaptation is only apparent where processing is most severely impacted, such as the perception of social attention cues.
date: 2017-05-17
date_type: published
official_url: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.05.001
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1298427
doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.05.001
pii: S1878-9293(16)30168-2
lyricists_name: Lawson, Rebecca
lyricists_name: Rees, Geraint
lyricists_name: Roiser, Jonathan
lyricists_id: RLAWS68
lyricists_id: GEREE91
lyricists_id: JPROI43
actors_name: Waragoda Vitharana, Nimal
actors_id: NWARR44
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
event_location: Netherlands
issn: 1878-9307
citation:        Lawson, RP;    Aylward, J;    Roiser, JP;    Rees, G;      (2017)    Adaptation of social and non-social cues to direction in adults with autism spectrum disorder and neurotypical adults with autistic traits.                   Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience        10.1016/j.dcn.2017.05.001 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.05.001>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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