Autistic traits and event-related potentials in the general population : A scoping review and meta-analysis

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BACKGROUND: Differences in short and long-latency Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) can help us infer abnormalities in brain processing, considering early and later stages of stimuli processing across tasks and conditions. In autism research, the adult population remains largely understudied compared to samples at early stages of development. In this context, this scoping review briefly summarises what has been described in community and subclinical adult samples of autism.

METHOD: The current scoping review and meta-analysis includes 50 records (N = 1652) and comprehensively explores short and long-latency ERP amplitudes and their relationship with autistic traits in adult community samples.

RESULTS: This meta-analysis identified, with small to medium effect sizes, distinctive patterns in late ERP amplitudes, indicating enhanced responses to visual stimuli and the opposite patterns to auditory tasks in the included sample. Additionally, a pattern of higher amplitudes was also found for the component P3b in autistic traits.

DISCUSSION: Differential effects in visual and auditory domains are explored in light of the predictive processing framework for Autism. It remains possible that different brain mechanisms operate to explain symptoms related with different sensory modalities. P3b is discussed as a possible component of interest in future studies as it revealed a more robust effect for differentiating severity in the expression of autistic traits in adulthood.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:186

Enthalten in:

Biological psychology - 186(2024) vom: 05. Feb., Seite 108758

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mazer, Prune [VerfasserIn]
Garcez, Helena [VerfasserIn]
Macedo, Inês [VerfasserIn]
Pasion, Rita [VerfasserIn]
Silveira, Celeste [VerfasserIn]
Sempf, Frederieke [VerfasserIn]
Ferreira-Santos, Fernando [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Autism
EEG
ERP
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Meta-analysis
Predictive Processing
Review

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Date Completed 25.03.2024

Date Revised 17.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108758

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367989921