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Shulamite A Green1,2, Emily T Wood1,2
1a Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior , University of California , Los Angeles.
Abstract:
Ward (this issue) proposes four (non-mutually-exclusive) theories for how sensory sensitivity, as commonly seen in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, may be linked to atypical neural responses to sensory stimuli. As presently laid out, these theories do not fully account for the complexity and heterogeneity of neural responses to sensory information seen in autism. We describe the important role of attention and regulation in atypical neural and behavioral responses to sensory stimuli, and how these higher-order functions might fit into some of the proposed theories.
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