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Disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: A sentence-completion task
It has been proposed that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) struggle both with response initiation and with response inhibition, both of which are functions of the executive system. Experimental tasks are unlikely pure measures of a single cognitive domain, and in this study we aim at...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9548610/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36225712 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964200 |
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author | Carmo, Joana C. Filipe, Carlos N. |
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description | It has been proposed that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) struggle both with response initiation and with response inhibition, both of which are functions of the executive system. Experimental tasks are unlikely pure measures of a single cognitive domain, and in this study we aim at understanding the contributions of response initiation difficulties to possible deficits in inhibitory control in autism. A sample of adults diagnosed with ASD and a control sample participated in this study. To participants it was asked to perform a sentence-completion task with two different condition: Part A—targeting response initiation and Part B—engaging inhibitory processes. Importantly, we have analyzed the B-A latencies that have been proposed for the removal of the response initiation confound effect. Results show that no differences between the groups were found in accuracy measures, either in Part A (ASD: M = 0.78; Controls: M = 0.90) nor Part B (ASD: M = 0.03; Controls: M = 0.02). However, in both conditions autistic participants were significantly slower to respond than the group of participants with typical development (Part A—ASD: M = 2432.5 ms; Controls M = 1078.5 ms; Part B—ASD M = 6758.3 ms; Controls M = 3283.9 ms). Critically, we show that when subtracting the response times of Part A from Part B (B-A latencies) no group differences attributable to inhibitory processes remained (ASD: M = 4325.76; Controls: M = 2205.46). With this study we corroborate the existence of difficulties with response initiation in autism and we question the existence of troubles in inhibition per se. |
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spelling | pubmed-95486102022-10-11 Disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: A sentence-completion task Carmo, Joana C. Filipe, Carlos N. Front Psychol Psychology It has been proposed that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) struggle both with response initiation and with response inhibition, both of which are functions of the executive system. Experimental tasks are unlikely pure measures of a single cognitive domain, and in this study we aim at understanding the contributions of response initiation difficulties to possible deficits in inhibitory control in autism. A sample of adults diagnosed with ASD and a control sample participated in this study. To participants it was asked to perform a sentence-completion task with two different condition: Part A—targeting response initiation and Part B—engaging inhibitory processes. Importantly, we have analyzed the B-A latencies that have been proposed for the removal of the response initiation confound effect. Results show that no differences between the groups were found in accuracy measures, either in Part A (ASD: M = 0.78; Controls: M = 0.90) nor Part B (ASD: M = 0.03; Controls: M = 0.02). However, in both conditions autistic participants were significantly slower to respond than the group of participants with typical development (Part A—ASD: M = 2432.5 ms; Controls M = 1078.5 ms; Part B—ASD M = 6758.3 ms; Controls M = 3283.9 ms). Critically, we show that when subtracting the response times of Part A from Part B (B-A latencies) no group differences attributable to inhibitory processes remained (ASD: M = 4325.76; Controls: M = 2205.46). With this study we corroborate the existence of difficulties with response initiation in autism and we question the existence of troubles in inhibition per se. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9548610/ /pubmed/36225712 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964200 Text en Copyright © 2022 Carmo and Filipe. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Carmo, Joana C. Filipe, Carlos N. Disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: A sentence-completion task |
title | Disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: A sentence-completion task |
title_full | Disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: A sentence-completion task |
title_fullStr | Disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: A sentence-completion task |
title_full_unstemmed | Disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: A sentence-completion task |
title_short | Disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: A sentence-completion task |
title_sort | disentangling response initiation difficulties from response inhibition in autism spectrum disorder: a sentence-completion task |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9548610/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36225712 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964200 |
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