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Adults with autism overestimate the volatility of the sensory environment

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Neuroscience, July 2017
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Title
Adults with autism overestimate the volatility of the sensory environment
Published in
Nature Neuroscience, July 2017
DOI 10.1038/nn.4615
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Authors

Rebecca P Lawson, Christoph Mathys, Geraint Rees

Abstract

Insistence on sameness and intolerance of change are among the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but little research has addressed how people with ASD represent and respond to environmental change. Here, behavioral and pupillometric measurements indicated that adults with ASD are less surprised than neurotypical adults when their expectations are violated, and decreased surprise is predictive of greater symptom severity. A hierarchical Bayesian model of learning suggested that in ASD, a tendency to overlearn about volatility in the face of environmental change drives a corresponding reduction in learning about probabilistically aberrant events, thus putatively rendering these events less surprising. Participant-specific modeled estimates of surprise about environmental conditions were linked to pupil size in the ASD group, thus suggesting heightened noradrenergic responsivity in line with compromised neural gain. This study offers insights into the behavioral, algorithmic and physiological mechanisms underlying responses to environmental volatility in ASD.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 613 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 143 23%
Researcher 92 15%
Student > Master 82 13%
Student > Bachelor 58 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 28 5%
Other 78 13%
Unknown 132 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 177 29%
Neuroscience 130 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 37 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 19 3%
Computer Science 13 2%
Other 60 10%
Unknown 177 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 277. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 May 2023.
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