Brief Report: Atypical Neuromagnetic Responses to Illusory Auditory Pitch in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Brock, Jon; Bzishvili, Samantha; Reid, Melanie; Hautus, Michael; Johnson, Blake W.
Titel	Brief Report: Atypical Neuromagnetic Responses to Illusory Auditory Pitch in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43 (2013) 11, S.2726-2731 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-013-1805-z
Schlagwörter	Autism; Children; Auditory Perception; Responses; Cognitive Processes; Brain; Auditory Stimuli; Auditory Tests; Auditory Discrimination; Pervasive Developmental Disorders + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Child; Kind; Kinder; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Gehirn; Auditive Stimulation; Auditory test
Abstract	Atypical auditory perception is a widely recognised but poorly understood feature of autism. In the current study, we used magnetoencephalography to measure the brain responses of 10 autistic children as they listened passively to dichotic pitch stimuli, in which an illusory tone is generated by sub-millisecond inter-aural timing differences in white noise. Relative to control stimuli that contain no inter-aural timing differences, dichotic pitch stimuli typically elicit an object related negativity (ORN) response, associated with the perceptual segregation of the tone and the carrier noise into distinct auditory objects. Autistic children failed to demonstrate an ORN, suggesting a failure of segregation; however, comparison with the ORNs of age-matched typically developing controls narrowly failed to attain significance. More striking, the autistic children demonstrated a significant differential response to the pitch stimulus, peaking at around 50 ms. This was not present in the control group, nor has it been found in other groups tested using similar stimuli. This response may be a neural signature of atypical processing of pitch in at least some autistic individuals. (As Provided).
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