Autistic traits shape neuronal oscillations during emotion perception under attentional load modulation.

ABSTRACT: Emotional content is particularly salient, but situational factors such as cognitive load may disturb the attentional prioritization towards affective stimuli and interfere with their processing. In this study, 31 autistic and 31 typically developed children volunteered to assess their perception of affective prosodies via event-related spectral perturbations of neuronal oscillations recorded by electroencephalography under attentional load modulations induced by Multiple Object Tracking or neutral images. Although intermediate load optimized emotion processing by typically developed children, load and emotion did not interplay in children with autism. Results also outlined impaired emotional integration emphasized in theta, alpha and beta oscillations at early and late stages, and lower a

SUBMITTER: Duville MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10199905 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature