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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

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To link to this item 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
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
ID Code:76997
Publisher:Springer

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