Social-interactive reward elicits similar neural response in autism and typical development and predicts future social experiences.

ABSTRACT: Challenges in initiating and responding to social-interactive exchanges are a key diagnostic feature of autism spectrum disorder, yet investigations into the underlying neural mechanisms of social interaction have been hampered by reliance on non-interactive approaches. Using an innovative social-interactive neuroscience approach, we investigated differences between youth with autism and youth with typical development in neural response to a chat-based social-interactive reward, as well as factors such as age and self-reported social enjoyment that may account for heterogeneity in that response. We found minimal group differences in neural and behavioral response to social-interactive reward, and variation within both groups was related to self-reported social enjoyment during the task. Fu

SUBMITTER: McNaughton KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9852551 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature