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SUBMITTER: Fukuyama H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5557757 | biostudies-other | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20170815 1
Tactile atypicality in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has harmful effects on their everyday lives including social interactions. However, whether tactile atypicality in ASD reflects perceptual and/or autonomic processes is unknown. Here, we show that adults with ASD have hypersensitivity to tactile stimuli in the autonomic but not perceptual domain. In particular, adults with ASD showed a greater skin conductance response (SCR) to tactile stimuli compared to typically developing ...[more]