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Published on: April 22, 2015
Largely Typical Electrophysiological Affective Responses to Special Interest Stimuli in Adolescents with Autism
Keelin Rivard1,2,3, Andrea B Protzner4,5, Ford Burles4
1Medical Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada.
Abstract:
Circumscribed interests are a symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that may be related to exaggerated affective neural responses. However, the use of generic ASD-interest image stimuli has left an open question as to whether affective responses towards individual interests are greater in ASD compared to typically developing (TD) controls. We compared amplitudes of the late positive potential (LPP), an affective electroencephalographic response, between adolescents with ASD (N = 19) and TD adolescents (N = 20), using images tailored to individual likes and dislikes. We found an LPP response for liked and disliked images, relative to neutral, with no difference in amplitude between groups. This suggests that the LPP is not atypical in adolescents with ASD towards images of individual interests.
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