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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology

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  • Predictive processing models highlight the brain's challenge in balancing sensory input with expectations.
  • Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with altered sensory processing and motor control.

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  • To investigate how preceding sensory context influences motor function in individuals with and without autistic features.
  • To examine differences in motor execution related to illusory ownership in clinical and subclinical autism spectrum disorder.

Main Methods:

  • Recorded reach-to-grasp movements after inducing illusory ownership of a prosthetic limb.
  • Analyzed reach trajectory sub-components using a minimum-jerk fitting procedure.
  • Compared motor responses between non-clinical adults with low/high autistic features and clinical individuals with ASD.

Main Results:

  • Non-clinical adults with low autistic features showed disrupted movements post-illusion.
  • Individuals with higher autistic features (clinical ASD and non-clinical high traits) exhibited reduced motor sensitivity to the illusion.
  • Clinical individuals differed from high-trait non-clinical individuals in early movement stages.

Conclusions:

  • The influence of environmental representations on motor performance varies across individuals, contributing to clinical and subclinical differences in autism spectrum disorder.
  • Altered sensitivity to contextual information in autistic sensory processing may underlie social comprehension difficulties, sensory impairments, and a preference for routine.