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Publication Date: 2020-Oct
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Atypical Visual-Auditory Predictive Coding in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Electrophysiological Evidence from Stimulus Omissions
van Laarhoven, Thijs; Stekelenburg, Jeroen J.; Eussen, Mart L. J. M.; Vroomen, Jean
Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, v24 n7 p1849-1859 Oct 2020
Autism spectrum disorder is a pervasive neurodevelopmental disorder that has been linked to a range of perceptual processing alterations, including hypo- and hyperresponsiveness to sensory stimulation. A recently proposed theory that attempts to account for these symptoms, states that autistic individuals have a decreased ability to anticipate upcoming sensory stimulation due to overly precise internal prediction models. Here, we tested this hypothesis by comparing the electrophysiological markers of prediction errors in auditory prediction by vision between a group of autistic individuals and a group of age-matched individuals with typical development. Between-group differences in prediction error signaling were assessed by comparing event-related potentials evoked by unexpected auditory omissions in a sequence of audiovisual recordings of a handclap in which the visual motion reliably predicted the onset and content of the sound. Unexpected auditory omissions induced an "increased" early negative omission response in the autism spectrum disorder group, indicating that violations of the prediction model produced larger prediction errors in the autism spectrum disorder group compared to the typical development group. The current results show that autistic individuals have alterations in visual-auditory predictive coding, and support the notion of impaired predictive coding as a core deficit underlying atypical sensory perception in autism spectrum disorder.
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Visual Perception, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Error Patterns, Prediction, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Motion, Acoustics, Perceptual Impairments
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Language: English
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