Late Positive Potential ERP Responses to Social and Nonsocial Stimuli in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Publication Title
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume
46
Issue
9
First page number:
3068
Last page number:
3077
Abstract
We examined the late positive potential (LPP) event related potential in response to social and nonsocial stimuli from youths 9 to 19 years old with (n = 35) and without (n = 34) ASD. Social stimuli were faces with positive expressions and nonsocial stimuli were related to common restricted interests in ASD (e.g., electronics, vehicles, etc.). The ASD group demonstrated relatively smaller LPP amplitude to social stimuli and relatively larger LPP amplitude to nonsocial stimuli. There were no group differences in subjective ratings of images, and there were no significant correlations between LPP amplitude and ASD symptom severity within the ASD group. LPP results suggest blunted motivational responses to social stimuli and heightened motivational responses to nonsocial stimuli in youth with ASD. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Keywords
Autism spectrum disorder; Late positive potential; Motivation; Restricted interests; Social
Language
English
Repository Citation
Benning, S.,
Kovac, M.,
Campbell, A.,
Miller, S.,
Hanna, E. K.,
Damiano, C. R.,
Sabatino-DiCriscio, A.,
Turner-Brown, L.,
Sasson, N. J.,
Aaron, R. V.,
Kinard, J.,
Dichter, G. S.
(2016).
Late Positive Potential ERP Responses to Social and Nonsocial Stimuli in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(9),
3068-3077.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2845-y