Social Attention in Autism: Neural Sensitivity to Speech Over Background Noise Predicts Encoding of Social Information

Social Attention in Autism: Neural Sensitivity to Speech Over Background Noise Predicts Encoding of Social Information

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by lack of attention to social cues in the environment, including speech. Hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, such as loud noises, is also extremely common in youth with ASD. While a link between sensory hypersensitivity...

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Main Authors: Leanna M. Hernandez, Shulamite A. Green, Katherine E. Lawrence, Marisa Inada, Janelle Liu, Susan Y. Bookheimer, Mirella Dapretto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
speech
autism
voice-selective
attention
conversation
noise
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00343/full

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