The perception of invariant speech features in children with autism
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.08.010
The perception of invariant speech features in children with autism
Abstract
We investigated whether the good pitch-discrimination abilities reported in individuals with autism have adverse effects on their speech perception by compromising their ability to extract invariant phonetic features from speech input. The MMN, a brain response reflecting sound-discrimination processes, was recorded from children with autism and their controls for phoneme-category and pitch changes in speech stimuli under two different conditions: (a) when all the other features of the standard and deviant stimuli were kept constant, and (b) when constant variation with respect to an irrelevant feature was introduced to the standard and deviant stimuli. Children with autism had enhanced MMNs for pitch changes in both conditions, as well as for phoneme-category changes in the constant-feature condition. However, when the phoneme-category changes occurred in phonemes having pitch variation, the MMN enhancement was abolished in autistic children. This suggests that children with autism lose their advantage in phoneme discrimination when the context of the stimuli is speech-like and requires abstracting invariant speech features from varying input.
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