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Enhanced pure-tone pitch discrimination among persons with autism but not Asperger syndrome

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Bonnel, Anna, McAdams, Stephen, Smith, Bennett, Berthiaume, Claude, Bertone, Armando, Ciocca, Valter, Burack, Jacob A., Mottron, Laurent·2010·Neuropsychologia
DOI 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.020
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Persons with Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) display atypical perceptual processing in visual and auditory tasks. In vision, Bertone, Mottron, Jelenic, and Faubert (2005) found that enhanced and diminished visual processing is linked to the level of neural complexity required to process stimuli, as proposed in the neural complexity hypothesis. Based on these findings, Samson, Mottron, Jemel, Belin, and Ciocca (2006) proposed to extend the neural complexity hypothesis to the auditory modality. They hypothesized that persons with ASD should display enhanced performance for simple tones that are processed in primary auditory cortical regions, but diminished performance for complex tones that require additional processing in associative auditory regions, in comparison to typically developing individuals. To assess this hypothesis, we designed four auditory discrimination experiments targeting pitch, non-vocal and vocal timbre, and loudness. Stimuli consisted of spectro-temporally simple and complex tones. The participants were adolescents and young adults with autism, Asperger syndrome, and typical developmental histories, all with IQs in the normal range. Consistent with the neural complexity hypothesis and enhanced perceptual functioning model of ASD (Mottron, Dawson, Soulières, Hubert, & Burack, 2006), the participants with autism, but not with Asperger syndrome, displayed enhanced pitch discrimination for simple tones. However, no discrimination-thresholds differences were found between the participants with ASD and the typically developing persons across spectrally and temporally complex conditions. These findings indicate that enhanced pure-tone pitch discrimination may be a cognitive correlate of speech-delay among persons with ASD. However, auditory discrimination among this group does not appear to be directly contingent on the spectro-temporal complexity of the stimuli.

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Authors
Bonnel, A., McAdams, S., Smith, B., Berthiaume, C., Bertone, A., Ciocca, V., Burack, J. A., & Mottron, L.
Affiliations
  • Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies (CA)
  • Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CA)
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
Corresponding author
Mottron, Laurent
ORCID
Venue
Neuropsychologia
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-07
Volume
48
Issue
9
Pages
2465-2475
ISSN
0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.020
OpenAlex
W2067611082
Cited by
262
References
80
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • eScholarship@McGill (McGill) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship@McGill (McGill) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Canada Research Chairs
  • Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Williams Syndrome Research
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, Asperger syndrome, auditory perception, timbre discrimination, loudness discrimination, speech delay, primary auditory cortex
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Audiometry, Pure-Tone, Autistic Disorder, Choice Behavior, Female, Humans, Male, Pitch Discrimination, Psychoacoustics, Asperger Syndrome, Young Adult

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