Lack of privileged access to awareness for rewarding social scenes in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Gray, K. L. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6071-4588, Haffey, A., Mihaylova, H. L. and Chakrabarti, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6649-7895 (2018) Lack of privileged access to awareness for rewarding social scenes in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48 (10). pp. 3311-3318. ISSN 0162-3257 doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3595-9

Abstract/Summary

Reduced social motivation is hypothesised to underlie social behavioural symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The extent to which rewarding social stimuli are granted privileged access to awareness in ASD is currently unknown. We use continuous flash suppression to investigate whether individuals with and without ASD show privileged access to awareness for social over nonsocial rewarding scenes that are closely matched for stimulus features. Strong evidence for a privileged access to awareness for rewarding social over nonsocial scenes was observed in neurotypical adults. No such privileged access was seen in ASD individuals, and moderate support for the null model was noted. These results suggest that the purported deficits in social motivation in ASD may extend to early processing mechanisms.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/76997
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s10803-018-3595-9
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 Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Cognition Research (CCR) Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Perception and Action
Publisher	Springer
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