- Title
- Psychophysiological correlates of developmental changes in healthy and autistic boys
- Creator
- Weismüller, Benjamin; Thienel, Renate; Youlden, Anne-Marie; Fulham, Ross; Koch, Michael; Schall, Ulrich
- Relation
- NHMRC.569259 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/569259
- Relation
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Vol. 45, Issue 7, p. 2168-2175
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2385-x
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- This study investigated neurodevelopmental changes in sound processing by recording mismatch negativity (MMN) in response to various degrees of sound complexity in 18 mildly to moderately autistic versus 15 healthy boys aged between 6 and 15 years. Autistic boys presented with lower IQ and poor performance on a range of executive and social function measures when compared to their healthy counterparts. We found that MMN in response to duration deviants was less lateralized in the clinical group whereas larger amplitudes correlated with advanced age, thus capturing neurodevelopmental changes. Larger MMN in response to speech-like sound deviants was associated with better verbal fluency and executive function performance, respectively, but did not reliably discriminate the two groups.
- Subject
- mismatch negativity; autism; brain maturation; executive function; theory of mind
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1335366
- Identifier
- uon:27424
- Identifier
- ISSN:0162-3257
- Rights
- The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2385-x
- Language
- eng
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