Mapping the Developmental Trajectory and Correlates of Enhanced Pitch Perception on Speech Processing in Adults with ASD

Autor/inn/en	Mayer, Jennifer L.; Hannent, Ian; Heaton, Pamela F.
Titel	Mapping the Developmental Trajectory and Correlates of Enhanced Pitch Perception on Speech Processing in Adults with ASD
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46 (2016) 5, S.1562-1573 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-014-2207-6
Schlagwörter	Correlation; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Auditory Perception; Regression (Statistics); Intonation; Cognitive Processes; Comparative Analysis; Adults; Speech; Auditory Discrimination; Children; Receptive Language; Scores; Vocabulary Development; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Severity (of Disability); Diagnostic Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Autismus; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Speaking; Sprechen; Child; Kind; Kinder; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Wortschatzarbeit; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Schweregrad; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test
Abstract	Whilst enhanced perception has been widely reported in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), relatively little is known about the developmental trajectory and impact of atypical auditory processing on speech perception in intellectually high-functioning adults with ASD. This paper presents data on perception of complex tones and speech pitch in adult participants with high-functioning ASD and typical development, and compares these with pre-existing data using the same paradigm with groups of children and adolescents with and without ASD. As perceptual processing abnormalities are likely to influence behavioural performance, regression analyses were carried out on the adult data set. The findings revealed markedly different pitch discrimination trajectories and language correlates across diagnostic groups. While pitch discrimination increased with age and correlated with receptive vocabulary in groups without ASD, it was enhanced in childhood and stable across development in ASD. Pitch discrimination scores did not correlate with receptive vocabulary scores in the ASD group and for adults with ASD superior pitch perception was associated with sensory atypicalities and diagnostic measures of symptom severity. We conclude that the development of pitch discrimination, and its associated mechanisms markedly distinguish those with and without ASD. (As Provided).
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