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EEG frequency tagging evidence of intact social interaction recognition in adults with autism

Danna Oomen, Emiel Cracco (UGent) , Marcel Brass (UGent) and Roeljan Wiersema (UGent)
(2023) AUTISM RESEARCH. 16(6). p.1111-1123
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To explain the social difficulties in autism, many studies have been conducted on social stimuli processing. However, this research has mostly used basic social stimuli (e.g., eyes, faces, hands, single agent), not resembling the complexity of what we encounter in our daily social lives and what people with autism experience difficulties with. Third-party social interactions are complex stimuli that we come across often and are also highly relevant for social functioning. Interestingly, the existing behavioral studies point to altered social interaction processing in autism. However, it is not clear whether this is due to altered recognition or altered interpretation of social interactions. Here, we specifically investigated the recognition of social interaction in adults with and without autism. More precisely, we measured neural responses to social scenes depicting either social interaction or not with an electroencephalogram frequency tagging task and compared these responses between adults with and without autism (N = 61). The results revealed an enhanced response to social scenes with interaction, replicating previous findings in a neurotypical sample. Crucially, this effect was found in both groups, with no difference between them. This suggests that social interaction recognition is not atypical in adults with autism. Taken together with the previous behavioral evidence, our study thus suggests that individuals with autism are able to recognize social interactions, but that they might not extract the same information from those interactions or that they might use the extracted information differently.
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autism spectrum disorder, electroencephalography, frequency tagging, social cognition, social interaction recognition, SPECTRUM QUOTIENT AQ, FUNCTIONING AUTISM, BIOLOGICAL MOTION, CHILDREN, PERCEPTION, EMOTION, BRAIN, MIND, ALEXITHYMIA, EXTRACTION

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Oomen, Danna, et al. “EEG Frequency Tagging Evidence of Intact Social Interaction Recognition in Adults with Autism.” AUTISM RESEARCH, vol. 16, no. 6, 2023, pp. 1111–23, doi:10.1002/aur.2929.
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Oomen, D., Cracco, E., Brass, M., & Wiersema, R. (2023). EEG frequency tagging evidence of intact social interaction recognition in adults with autism. AUTISM RESEARCH, 16(6), 1111–1123. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2929
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Oomen, Danna, Emiel Cracco, Marcel Brass, and Roeljan Wiersema. 2023. “EEG Frequency Tagging Evidence of Intact Social Interaction Recognition in Adults with Autism.” AUTISM RESEARCH 16 (6): 1111–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2929.
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Oomen, Danna, Emiel Cracco, Marcel Brass, and Roeljan Wiersema. 2023. “EEG Frequency Tagging Evidence of Intact Social Interaction Recognition in Adults with Autism.” AUTISM RESEARCH 16 (6): 1111–1123. doi:10.1002/aur.2929.
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Oomen D, Cracco E, Brass M, Wiersema R. EEG frequency tagging evidence of intact social interaction recognition in adults with autism. AUTISM RESEARCH. 2023;16(6):1111–23.
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D. Oomen, E. Cracco, M. Brass, and R. Wiersema, “EEG frequency tagging evidence of intact social interaction recognition in adults with autism,” AUTISM RESEARCH, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1111–1123, 2023.
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