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Article Dans Une Revue Translational Psychiatry Année : 2021

Emotional visual mismatch negativity : a joint investigation of social and non-social dimensions in adults with autism

Judith Charpentier
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Sylvie Roux
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Emmanuelle Houy-Durand
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Marie Gomot

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Unusual behaviors and brain activity to socio-emotional stimuli have been reported in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Atypical reactivity to change and intolerance of uncertainty are also present, but little is known on their possible impact on facial expression processing in autism. The visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) is an electrophysiological response automatically elicited by changing events such as deviant emotional faces presented among regular neutral faces. While vMMN has been found altered in ASD in response to low-level changes in simple stimuli, no study has investigated this response to visual social stimuli. Here two deviant expressions were presented, neutral and angry, embedded in a sequence of repetitive neutral stimuli. vMMN peak analyses were performed for latency and amplitude in early and late time windows. The ASD group presented smaller amplitude of the late vMMN to both neutral and emotional deviants compared to the typically developed adults (TD) group, and only the TD group presented a sustained activity related to emotional change (i.e., angry deviant). Source reconstruction of the vMMNs further revealed that any change processing elicited a reduced activity in ASD group compared to TD in the saliency network, while the specific processing emotional change elicited activity in the temporal region and in the insula. This study confirms atypical change processing in ASD and points to a specific difficulty in the processing of emotional changes, potentially playing a crucial role in social interaction deficits. Nevertheless, these results require to be further replicated with a greater sample size and generalized to other emotional expressions.
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hal-03115323 , version 1 (18-12-2023)

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Klara Kovarski, Judith Charpentier, Sylvie Roux, Magali Batty, Emmanuelle Houy-Durand, et al.. Emotional visual mismatch negativity : a joint investigation of social and non-social dimensions in adults with autism. Translational Psychiatry, 2021, 11 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41398-020-01133-5⟩. ⟨hal-03115323⟩
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