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Stop Making Noise! Auditory Sensitivity in Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: Physiological Habituation and Subjective Detection Thresholds

Auditory sensitivities are common among people with autism spectrum disorder diagnoses (ASD). As underlying factors are unknown, we examined whether ASD adults (N(ASD) = 33; N(Typically Developing) = 31; 25–45 years; IQ > 70): (1) habituated slower to auditory stimuli; (2) had lower auditory dete...

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Autores principales: Kuiper, Marieke W. M., Verhoeven, Elisabeth W. M., Geurts, Hilde M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6483953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30680585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-03890-9
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description Auditory sensitivities are common among people with autism spectrum disorder diagnoses (ASD). As underlying factors are unknown, we examined whether ASD adults (N(ASD) = 33; N(Typically Developing) = 31; 25–45 years; IQ > 70): (1) habituated slower to auditory stimuli; (2) had lower auditory detection thresholds; and (3) whether these mechanisms related to self-reported auditory sensitivities. Two auditory stimuli (tone, siren) were repeated, whilst skin conductance responses were recorded to measure habituation. Detection thresholds were measured by stepwise reductions in tone volume. We found no evidence in favor of our hypotheses, but ASD adults did rate the auditory stimuli as more arousing. Based on explorative analyses, we argue that studying the strength of physiological responses to auditory stimuli is needed to understand auditory sensitivities.
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spelling pubmed-64839532019-05-15 Stop Making Noise! Auditory Sensitivity in Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: Physiological Habituation and Subjective Detection Thresholds Kuiper, Marieke W. M. Verhoeven, Elisabeth W. M. Geurts, Hilde M. J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper Auditory sensitivities are common among people with autism spectrum disorder diagnoses (ASD). As underlying factors are unknown, we examined whether ASD adults (N(ASD) = 33; N(Typically Developing) = 31; 25–45 years; IQ > 70): (1) habituated slower to auditory stimuli; (2) had lower auditory detection thresholds; and (3) whether these mechanisms related to self-reported auditory sensitivities. Two auditory stimuli (tone, siren) were repeated, whilst skin conductance responses were recorded to measure habituation. Detection thresholds were measured by stepwise reductions in tone volume. We found no evidence in favor of our hypotheses, but ASD adults did rate the auditory stimuli as more arousing. Based on explorative analyses, we argue that studying the strength of physiological responses to auditory stimuli is needed to understand auditory sensitivities. Springer US 2019-01-24 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6483953/ /pubmed/30680585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-03890-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title_sort stop making noise! auditory sensitivity in adults with an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis: physiological habituation and subjective detection thresholds
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6483953/
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