Hemispheric influences on electrodermal and cognitive variables

Stevens, Sheila; Cruzelier, John

doi:10.1016/0301-0511(84)90079-6

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“…However, in response to the louder sequence, the autistic children reversed their asymmetry and had higher levels on the left hand, which was the same pattern indicated by the older normal children to both sequences. The difference in asymmetries between older and younger normal children confirms previous research (Stevens & Gruzelier, 1982). However, the results in autistic children suggest a paradox.…”

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Electrodermal activity to auditory stimuli in autistic, retarded, and normal children

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Gruzelier

1984

J Autism Dev Disord

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Electrodermal activity to auditory stimuli was compared in 20 autistic children and their matched retarded and normal controls (N = 80). The autistic children were virtually indistinguishable in individual features of electrodermal activity from controls when both chronological and mental age comparisons were accounted for. When patterns of activity were considered globally, both autistic and retarded children could be distinguished from one another and from normal controls. However, in some respects autistic and same-aged normal children were alike--both showed sensitization to 70-dB tones and both had a higher incidence of children with larger left- than right-hand responses, interpreted as evidence of focused attention under left hemisphere control.

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