“…Individuals with autism are known to have difficulties in filtering out the environmental background noise (Grandin & Scarinno, 1989;Wolfgang et al, 2005), as well as hypo-reactivity and hyper-acusia to auditory stimulation (Rosenhall et al, 1999). Recently, some MRI and fMRI studies including individuals with ASD (Gervais et al, 2004;McAlonan et al, 2002;Wang, Dapretto, Hariri, Sigman, & Brookheimer, 2001) have shown differences in the middle and superior temporal gyri, and in the limbic system while processing prosodic features. Furthermore, the neural connectivity in individuals with ASD is suggested be abnormal (see Belmonte et al, 2004).…”