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Interoception Is Impaired in Children, but Not Adults, with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Nicholson, Toby; Williams, David; Carpenter, Katie; Kallitsounaki, Aimilia
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v49 n9 p3625-3637 Sep 2019
Interoception (the ability to sense what's going on inside one's body) is considered integral to many higher-order cognitive processes. Some have speculated that impaired interoception may underpin some features of ASD. Yet, in Experiment 1, we found no evidence of a between-group difference in either cardiac or respiratory interoceptive accuracy among 21 adults with ASD and 21 matched controls. Bayesian analyses suggested the data strongly supported the null hypothesis. In Experiment 2, we measured cardiac interoceptive accuracy in 21 "children" with ASD and 21 matched controls. Here interoceptve accuracy "was" significantly diminished in the ASD group and was associated with a moderate-to-large effect size. Results suggest early interoception difficulties are resolved or compensated for by adulthood in people with ASD.
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Physiology, Metabolism, Adults, Accuracy, Children, Perceptual Impairments
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