Inflexible adjustment of expectations affects cognitive-emotional conflict control in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.

Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior
Marie L Schreiter, Christian Beste

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is marked by a range of challenges including cognitive and socio-emotional differences as well as difficulties to flexibly adjust to unpredictable situations. It has recently been suggested that people with ASD hold rigid expectations about upcoming events that tend to be shaped by information that is unlikely to repeat in the future. Prior expectations play an important role for proactive conflict control exemplified in the Gratton, or the congruency sequence effect (CSE). Here, we examine proactive cognitive-emotional conflict control in ASD compared to neuro-typical controls and the underlying neurophysiological and functional neuroanatomical processes using EEG methods and an emotional Stroop task with sequentially manipulated trial transitions. We show that, in ASD the presence of cognitive-emotional conflict in a previous trial affects the ability to process emotional conflict in a subsequent trial. That is, ASD individuals show a prominent CSE effect on emotional stimuli while neuro-typical controls do not. The neurophysiological data revealed that this proactive reconfiguration of stimulus-response associations during conflict resolution is associated with activation within anterior cingul...Continue Reading

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Jan 13, 2021·Biological Psychiatry : Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging·Matthieu ChidharomAnne Bonnefond
Apr 16, 2021·Biological Psychiatry : Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging·Franziska GillerChristian Beste
Aug 23, 2020·NeuroImage·Nico AdelhöferChristian Beste

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