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Autistic individuals show similar real-time challenges in processing syntax in both language and music, supporting the Shared Syntactic Integration Resource Hypothesis (SSIRH). This suggests a shared neural resource for syntactic integration across domains in autism.

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  • Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Music Cognition

Background:

  • The Shared Syntactic Integration Resource Hypothesis (SSIRH) proposes overlapping neural resources for syntactic processing in language and music.
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is often linked with language impairments but typically shows intact musical abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the SSIRH in autistic individuals by examining neural responses to syntactic processing in both language and music.
  • To determine if autistic individuals exhibit cross-domain syntactic integration difficulties.

Main Methods:

  • Electroencephalography (EEG) recorded neural activity in 31 autistic and 31 non-autistic participants.
  • Participants judged the acceptability of syntactically congruent and incongruent sentences and musical sequences.

Main Results:

  • Autistic participants demonstrated a reduced and delayed P600 effect, a marker of syntactic integration, in both language and music tasks.
  • Behavioral accuracy was comparable between autistic and non-autistic groups, despite neural differences.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the SSIRH by showing parallel syntactic processing difficulties in both language and music in autistic individuals.
  • This study provides novel insights into real-time cross-domain syntactic processing in autism and its implications for understanding language and music cognition.