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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Autistic Traits"”.
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Autistic Traits and Cognitive Biases for Emotional Faces in Neurotypicals
… associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) traits is unknown. We examined whether cognitive biases for emotional faces were related to scores from the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), and whether our measures of cognitive biases from a dot- probe paradigm with concurrent eye tracking were …
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Relations Between Autistic Traits, Social Anxiety, and Attribution Biases in Young Adults
Previous research has found that autistic children show increased hostile or negative attributions (e.g., assuming a classmate bumped into you on purpose) as compared to their neurotypical peers. Very little work, however, has examined relations between autistic traits and attribution styles in …
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Investigating the effects of neuromodulatory training on autistic traits: a multi-methods psychophysiological study.
… (EEG) across the spectrum of autistic traits in neurotypical individuals, 2) A comparison of 3 EEG protocols on MNs activation (mu suppression) and its difference according to self-reported traits of autism in neurotypical individuals, and 3) Neurofeedback training (NFT) on …
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What's odd? Cognitive processing of social contexts based on autistic traits within the general population
… by examining how different levels of ASD-like traits in the general population can affect perception of social contexts (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001; Bayliss & Tipper, 2006; Ruzich et al., 2015). ASD-like traits were measured by the Autism Quotient (AQ; Baron-Cohen et al., 2001). Participants …
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Visual orienting to eye gaze in individuals with high and low levels of autistic traits
… in typical individuals with high levels of autistic traits. To explore this possibility, typically developing individuals with high and low levels of autistic traits were compared on their performance of pro-saccade and anti-saccade cueing tasks with gaze and arrow distracters. Eye movements …
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Different Pathways To Cognition: An Erp Investigation of Enhanced Perceptual Functioning And Autistic Traits in School-aged Children
<p>Autistic individuals show enhanced perceptual functioning on a range of behavioral tasks. Neurophysiological evidence, from both fMRI and event related potential (ERP) studies, also supports the conclusion that autistic individuals utilize perceptual processes to a greater extent than …
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Boundaries of the cognitive phenotype of autism: social cognition and central coherence in young people with autistic traits and their first degree relatives
… At the cognitive level, groups of people with autistic disorder can be differentiated from people without the disorder by their ability to reason about beliefs and knowledge (Theory of Mind) and by tests of visual disembedding (central coherence). This study examined whether young people with …
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Sex differences in human perinatal development and autism
… with higher likelihood for autism and elevated autistic traits. This background literature is reported in Chapter 1. In this thesis, eight novel studies are reported that test and extend the prenatal sex steroid theory by investigating perinatal factors related to sex differences in physiology. …
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The neurocognitive mechanisms of perceptual inference in autism
… mechanisms of perceptual inference in autistic individuals. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of sensory perception, its neurocomputational framework, and its role in autism. It provides an overview of the theories and models of perception in autism and presents the overarching aims of …
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Facial Processing and Social Motivation In Psychopathy: An Event-Related Potential Study
… that cannot be attributed wholly to overlap with autistic traits. The current study examined self-report measures, a lab task, and event-related potentials (ERPs) that are related to social, interpersonal functioning and motivation to help elucidate what aspects of psychopathy and ASD are …
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Cognitive and Affective Pathways to Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Youth in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
… was examining the potential moderating role of autistic traits on significant associations. Although greater autistic traits significantly predicted presence of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, this study did not find a moderation of autistic traits. These results provide developmental …
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Exploring the spectrum: The heterogeneity of autism and associations with gastrointestinal inflammation
… As diet can impact GI dysfunction, the diets of autistic children, siblings, and unrelated controls from the AAB were first examined in Chapter 2. This study, published in Autism Research, revealed nuanced relationships with diet shaped by familial influences, autistic traits, sensory processing …
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The relationship between multilingualism and autism: a bidirectional approach to a complex issue
… 2016), replicating previous research on non-autistic children and adults (Bialystok, 2011). Furthermore, when surveyed, autistic adults have responded positively about learning multiple languages (Digard, Sorace, Stanfield, & Fletcher-Watson, 2020). However, there is no research that …
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Individual Differences in Behavioural and Physiological Responses to Affective Touch
… examines how individual differences in social traits relate to behavioural and physiological responses to affective touch. Over the last few decades the functionality of C-Tactile afferents (CTs) have been investigated, with researchers positing that CTs function to signal the rewarding value …
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Functional brain imaging of facial emotion processing in individuals with intellectual impairments
… needs, it was found that those with high autistic traits had a region of hyperactivation to neutral faces in the right rolandic operculum; replicating a finding previously described in a metaanalysis of prior functional imaging studies in individuals with autism and of average or enhanced …
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SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS INFLUENCING CAMOUFLAGING BEHAVIOURS AND THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES IN AUTISTIC AND NON-AUTISTIC ADULTS
Background: Camouflaging in autistic people (i.e. strategies to modify behaviour, mask autism-related characteristics, or conform to uncomfortable social situations to appear more “neurotypical”) is associated with poorer mental health and may render one’s support needs being overlooked. While …
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Social camouflaging and mental health in adolescence: differences by sex and diagnosis
… term used to describe the set of strategies that autistic individuals use to hide or mask autistic traits. Importantly, nonautistic individuals can also camouflage, as autistic traits are distributed throughout the general population. Some studies suggest that autistic females camouflage more than …
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Examining Relationships Between Problem-Solving Style and the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Leveraging Adaption-Innovation Theory to Support Autistic Adults in the Workplace
Research shows that approximately 85% of autistic individuals are unemployed or underemployed, highlighting the need for workforce development and leadership training to support this marginalized group. While autism spectrum disorders have increased significantly since the early 2000s, limited …
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