Feedback and reward processing in high-functioning autism
Abstract
Individuals with high-functioning autism often display deficits in social interactions and high-level cognitive functions. Such deficits may be influenced by poor ability to process feedback and rewards. The feedback-related negativity (FRN) is an event-related potential (ERP) that is more negative following losses than gains. We examined FRN amplitude in 25 individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and 25 age- and IQ-matched typically developing control participants who completed a guessing task with monetary loss/gain feedback. Both groups demonstrated a robust FRN that was more negative to loss trials than gain trials; however, groups did not differ in FRN amplitude as a function of gain or loss trials. N1 and P300 amplitudes did not differentiate groups. FRN amplitude was positively correlated with age in individuals with ASD, but not measures of intelligence, anxiety, behavioral inhibition, or autism severity. Given previous findings of reduced-amplitude error-related negativity (ERN) in ASD, we propose that individuals with ASD may process external, concrete, feedback similar to typically developing individuals, but have difficulty with internal, more abstract, regulation of performance.
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Larson et al. reported that an ERP marker of reward processing was unimpaired in ASD.
“By contrast,, Larson and colleagues [573] reported that an ERP marker of reward processing was unimpaired in ASD, highlighting the need for future research to examine differential brain activation to reward gains and losses in ASD.”
From Reward circuitry dysfunction in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic syndromes: animal models and clinical findings (2012) · cites this paper as [573]
Larson and colleagues found that ERPs evoked by reward outcome did not differ between children with and without ASD, and concluded that the neural response to concrete, external feedback, that is, monetary gain ('liking') and loss ('disliking'), is intact in ASD, reflected in normal FRN and P3 effects.
“Similar to the findings by Groen [101], the ERPs evoked by reward outcome did not differ between the experimental groups. The authors concluded that the neural response to concrete, external feedback, that is, monetary gain (‘liking’) and loss (‘disliking’), is intact in ASD, reflected in normal FRN and P3 effects.”
From Social “wanting” dysfunction in autism: neurobiological underpinnings and treatment implications (2012) · cites this paper as [103]
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- Authors
- Larson, M. J., South, M., Krauskopf, E., Clawson, A., & Crowley, M. J.
- Affiliations
- Brigham Young University (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Larson, Michael J.
- Venue
- Psychiatry Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-05
- Volume
- 187
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 198-203
- ISSN
- 0165-1781 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2161634425
- Cited by
- 90
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychiatry Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Brigham Young University College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Keywords
- high-functioning autism, autism spectrum disorder, feedback processing, reward processing, feedback-related negativity, error-related negativity, age-related changes, performance regulation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Analysis of Variance, Autistic Disorder, Brain Mapping, Child, Decision Making, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Feedback, Female, Humans, Intelligence, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Reward, Case-Control Studies, Young Adult
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