Auditory preference of children with autism spectrum disorders

Gilbertson, Lynn; Lutfi, Robert A.; Weismer, Susan Ellis

doi:10.1007/s10339-016-0787-0

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“…In this set of tasks, the effort expended to prolong / increase exposure to social stimuli is used to index social seeking. For example, participants are presented a stimulus briefly and they are expected to make multiple/ quick button presses to increase the duration that a stimulus is presented for, or the amount of it that is presented (Ewing et al, 2013;Gilbertson et al, 2017;. An example of an expenditure task is presented in Figure 2c.…”

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Social orienting and social seeking behaviors in ASD. A meta analytic investigation

Hedger

Dubey

Chakrabarti

2020

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Social motivation accounts of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) posit that individuals with ASD find social stimuli less rewarding than neurotypical (NT) individuals. Behaviorally, this is proposed to manifest in reduced social orienting (individuals with ASD direct less attention towards social stimuli) and reduced social seeking (individuals with ASD invest less effort to receive social stimuli). In two meta-analyses, involving data from over 6000 participants, we review the available behavioral studies that assess social orienting and social seeking behaviors in ASD. We found robust evidence for reduced social orienting in ASD, across a range of paradigms, demographic variables and stimulus contexts. The most robust predictor of this effect was interactive content -effects were larger when the stimulus involved an interaction between people. By contrast, the evidence for reduced social seeking indicated weaker evidence for group differences, observed only under specific experimental conditions.The insights gained from this meta-analysis can inform design of relevant task measures for social reward responsivity and promote directions for further study on the ASD phenotype.

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Section: Expenditure Tasksmentioning

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Social orienting and social seeking behaviors in ASD. A meta analytic investigation

Hedger

Dubey

Chakrabarti

2020

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…Third, the method used to obtain an objective measure of relative preference for social sounds was the observation of eye-gaze or head-turn toward the person/agent giving the social bid. Though this “head-turn method” has been the most common means to investigate the attention to sound (Gilbertson et al 2016 ), it relies heavily on the assumption of a strong association between preference and orientation to a sound, when in fact the child’s attention to the social sound may be provoked for a variety of reasons unrelated to preference (e.g., distraction, surprise, or even annoyance) (Gilbertson et al 2016 ). Again, observation over multiple sessions with a variety of social presses may help further support sustained preference versus short-range attention.…”

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Brief Report: Evaluating the Utility of Varied Technological Agents to Elicit Social Attention from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Kumazaki

Warren

Swanson

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J Autism Dev Disord

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Technological agents could be effective tools to be used in interventions for enhancing social orienting for some young children with ASD. We examined response to social bids in preschool children with ASD and typical development (TD) at a very early age (i.e., around 3 years) using social prompts presented by technological agents of various forms and human comparisons. Children with ASD demonstrated less response overall to social bids compared to TD controls, across agents or human. They responded more often to a simple humanoid robot and the simple avatar compared to the human. These results support the potential utilization of specific robotic and technological agents for harnessing and potentially increasing motivation to socially-relevant behaviors in some young children with ASD.

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“…However, the empirical studies testing the predictions of the social motivation theory have yielded mixed results. While some published works report that ASC is related to hypo-responsiveness specifically to social (e.g., Scott-Van Zeeland et al, 2010;Sepeta et al, 2012;Stavropoulos & Carver, 2014b, 2014a or both social and nonsocial rewards (e.g., Baumeister et al, 2020;Kohls et al, 2011Kohls et al, , 2013Kohls, Thönessen, et al, 2014;Richey et al, 2014), other studies found no differences between ASC and comparison groups (e.g., Demurie et al, 2016;Ewing et al, 2013;Gilbertson et al, 2017). Moreover, some studies reported hyper-responsiveness to rewards in ASC, especially to objects related to special interests (e.g., Cascio et al, 2014;Kohls et al, 2018;Watson et al, 2015), but also to other social and non-social rewards (e.g., Matyjek, Bayer, et al, 2020;Pankert et al, 2014;van Dongen et al, 2015).…”

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Reward Responsiveness across Autism and Autistic Traits – Evidence from Neuronal, Autonomic, and Behavioural Levels

Matyjek

Bayer

Dziobek

2022

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Atypicalities in processing of social rewards have been suggested to lie at the root of social difficulties in autism spectrum conditions (ASC). While evidence for atypical reward function in ASC is mounting, it remains unclear whether it manifests specifically in hypo- or hyper-responsiveness, and whether it appears only in the social domain or more generally. Moreover, stimuli used as social rewards in studies often lack familiarity and relevance, which are known to enhance reward-related responses. In this study, we investigated behavioural (reaction times and ratings), neuronal (event-related potentials), and autonomic (pupil sizes) responses to three conditions — relevant social rewards, money, and neutral informative outcomes — in 26 ASC and 53 non-autistic subjects varying in levels of autistic traits, as measured with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ). We used both a population-based approach (low AQ vs. high AQ) and a psychopathological approach (low AQ vs. ASC) to investigate the effects of both sub- clinical and clinical autistic traits on reward responsiveness. As hypothesised and preregistered, autism and autistic traits did not differently influence responses to social, monetary, and neutral outcomes on behavioural, neuronal or autonomic level. Although the ASC group rated the motivational and rewarding values of stimuli lower than the other groups, the task performance was similar for all participants. Moreover, the ASC group in contrast to low AQ group showed enhanced brain responses (the CNV) in early anticipation and larger pupil constrictions in reward reception. Both effects were also predicted by autistic traits (AQ). Together, our results do not offer evidence for specifically social reward deficits in ASC. Instead, the data suggest enhanced neuronal and autonomic reward responsiveness linked to autism with simultaneously typical performance and reduced self-reported motivational and rewarding values of stimuli. Together, these results emphasise the need to investigate multiple processing levels for a broader picture of reward responsiveness in ASC.

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Auditory preference of children with autism spectrum disorders

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Social orienting and social seeking behaviors in ASD. A meta analytic investigation

Social orienting and social seeking behaviors in ASD. A meta analytic investigation

Brief Report: Evaluating the Utility of Varied Technological Agents to Elicit Social Attention from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Reward Responsiveness across Autism and Autistic Traits – Evidence from Neuronal, Autonomic, and Behavioural Levels

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