The relationship between autism and pitch perception is modulated by cognitive abilities

Ong, J. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1503-8311, Zhao, C., Bacon, A., Leung, F. Y. N., Veic, A., Wang, L., Jiang, C. and Liu, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7776-0222 (2023) The relationship between autism and pitch perception is modulated by cognitive abilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. ISSN 0162-3257 doi: 10.1007/s10803-023-06075-7

Abstract/Summary

Previous studies reported mixed findings on autistic individuals’ pitch perception relative to neurotypical (NT) individuals. We investigated whether this may be partly due to individual differences in cognitive abilities by comparing their performance on various pitch perception tasks on a large sample (n = 164) of autistic and NT children and adults. Our findings revealed that: (i) autistic individuals either showed similar or worse performance than NT individuals on the pitch tasks; (ii) cognitive abilities were associated with some pitch task performance; and (iii) cognitive abilities modulated the relationship between autism diagnosis and pitch perception on some tasks. Our findings highlight the importance of taking an individual differences approach to understand the strengths and weaknesses of pitch processing in autism.

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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) Interdisciplinary centres and themes > ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) Research Network Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Language and Cognition
Publisher	Springer
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