Animacy Processing in Autism: Event-Related Potentials Reflect Social Functioning Skills.

ABSTRACT: Though previous studies with autistic individuals have provided behavioral evidence of animacy perception difficulties, the spatio-temporal dynamics of animacy processing in autism remain underexplored. This study investigated how animacy is neurally encoded in autistic adults, and whether potential deficits in animacy processing have cascading deleterious effects on their social functioning skills. We employed a picture naming paradigm that recorded accuracy and response latencies to animate and inanimate pictures in young autistic adults and age- and IQ-matched healthy individuals, while also employing high-density EEG analysis to map the spatio-temporal dynamics of animacy processing. Participants' social skills were also assessed through a social comprehension task. The autistic adults

SUBMITTER: Peristeri E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10742338 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature