Noise from the periphery in autism

Brincker, Maria; Torres, Elizabeth B.

doi:10.3389/fnint.2013.00034

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“…Analyzing these large categories such as social skills, as well as cognitive, behavioral, and emotional differences has led to advances in diagnosis, description, treatment, and supports for individuals with autism. However, clinical observations within these categories are too broad and do not provide specific or useful descriptions for the previously noted heterogeneous characteristics and performances in autism [Brincker & Torres, ]. Therefore, judging performance solely on clinical observations might not account for more specific compensatory mechanisms developed by individuals to cope and adapt to their external environment [Torres et al, ].…”

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“…The study demonstrated marked differences in hand movements in individuals with autism and were thus able to divide the participants into subgroups. They found information processed (internal and external) based on the central and peripheral nervous system (voluntary and autonomic) depended on specific task parameters and coined the term ‘micro‐movements,’ which corresponds to the re‐afferent feedback signal that produces stochastic signatures of movement fluctuations over time [Brincker & Torres, ]. These disruptions in movement and their ramifications can impact an individual's motor control and, as a consequence, impact their social interactions and behavioral choices/patterns, which may be an aspect of the cognitive challenges that are commonly described in individuals with autism [Torres et al, ].…”

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“…However, disinhibition of D1R containing medium spiny neurons in the NAC leads to enhanced motor learning and a stereotypical motor behavior that has almost no variability in motor reproduction of the task [Rothwell et al, ]. Such stereotypical motor behavior indicates an absence of extrinsic sensory feedback to the cortex and/or absence of internal motor noise that is present during execution when the same motor command is given out to the peripheral effectors from the central nervous system [Brincker & Torres, ]. The neuroligin‐3 conditional knockout animal models execute this specific stereotypical behavior [Rothwell et al, ] possibly due to lack of feedback, both external (environmental) and/or internal (sensory).…”

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Basal ganglia and autism – a translational perspective

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Habit learning, action selection and performance are modulated by the basal ganglia, a collection of groups of neurons located below the cerebral cortex in the brain. In autism, there is emerging evidence that parts of the basal ganglia are structurally and functionally altered disrupting normal information flow. The basal ganglia through its interconnected circuits with the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum can potentially impact various motor and cognitive functions in the autism brain.

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“…In individuals with ASD, Torres and colleagues show the occurrence of disrupted patterns in re-entrant (afferent, proprioceptive) sensory feedback that usually contributes to the autonomous regulation and coordination of motor output, and supports volitional control and fl uid, fl exible transitions between intentional and spontaneous behaviors (Torres 2013;Torres et al 2013). In ASD, as well as in other developmental disorders (e.g., Down Syndrome), disruptions in motor processes may partly explain why individuals show diffi culties in distinguishing goal-directed from goal-less movement (Torres 2013;Brincker and Torres 2013), anticipating the consequences of their own impending movements and applying fi ne-tuned discriminations to the actions and emotional facial expressions of others during real-time social interactions. These studies hold important implications for future research and therapeutic interventions, although further research is required to understand differences among sensorimotor problems in the different disorders and what precisely they contribute to each one (Gallagher and Varga 2015).…”

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Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science

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An action-oriented perspective changes the role of an individual from a passive observer to an actively engaged agent interacting in a closed loop with the world as well as with others. Cognition exists to serve action within a landscape that contains both. This chapter surveys this landscape and addresses the status of the pragmatic turn. Its potential infl uence on science and the study of cognition are considered (including perception, social cognition, social interaction, sensorimotor entrainment, and language acquisition) and its impact on how neuroscience is studied is also investigated (with the notion that brains do not passively build models, but instead support the guidance of action).A review of its implications in robotics and engineering includes a discussion of the application of enactive control principles to couple action and perception in robotics as well as the conceptualization of system design in a more holistic, less modular manner. Practical applications that can impact the human condition are reviewed (e.g., educational applications, treatment possibilities for developmental and psychopathological disorders, the development of neural prostheses). All of this foreshadows the potential societal implications of the pragmatic turn. The chapter concludes that an action-oriented approach emphasizes a continuum of interaction between technical aspects of cognitive systems and robotics, biology, psychology, the social sciences, and the humanities, where the individual is part of a grounded cultural system.

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“…The authors thereby understand a chaotic and deregulated perception of the world. In terms of Brincker and Torres [25] , we could say that they are exposed to "various kinds of peripheral noise" [ 25 , p. 175].…”

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A Phenomenological Account of Sensorimotor Difficulties in Autism: Intentionality, Movement, and Proprioception

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2017

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During the last decades, the focus in autism research has been progressively extended. Today it offers a large amount of material on sensorimotor disturbances as well as perceptive-cognitive preferences of people with autism. However, there are more and more critical voices against an intellectualist perspective in the cognitive sciences. The “enactive approach” as well as a new “movement perspective” to autism challenge the view of autism as a mere “cognitive” disturbance. They criticize the conception of a cognizing subject which is only interested in the world in as much as she/he can extract knowledge and organize it rationally. The present paper discusses fundamental insights from this critical sensorimotor perspective to autism from a phenomenological standpoint. Several important papers have already proven the fruitful combination of phenomenology with sensorimotor-focused research in the field of autism. However, these writings generally concentrate on problems of embodied intersubjectivity as an alternative approach to leading “theory of mind” paradigms. The present article reflects on the role and dimension of sensorimotor problems in themselves and not primarily in the intersubjective encounter. The notion of body intentionality will turn out to be a central heuristic device in order to understand the subject's relationship to the world within a holistic framework, in which the person's way to move, feel, and perceive are manners of understanding his/her own world. Empirical findings on difficulties in proactive and anticipatory control of movement as well as research outcome on proprioception and kinesthetic feedback will provide suitable material for discussing the transformation of body intentionality in autism. Phenomenology will provide the theoretical foundation in order to understand atypical movement patterns as alternative ways for producing alternative meanings.

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Noise from the periphery in autism

Cited by 50 publications

References 30 publications

Basal ganglia and autism – a translational perspective

Basal ganglia and autism – a translational perspective

Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science

A Phenomenological Account of Sensorimotor Difficulties in Autism: Intentionality, Movement, and Proprioception

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