Neural and cortisol responses during play with human and computer partners in children with autism

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1074-1083

  Edmiston, Elliot Kale ^a   Merkle, Kristen ^b   Corbett, Blythe A ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; fMRI; Insula; Prisoner's dilemma; Social exchange; Temporal parietal junction

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AUTISM; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COMPUTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PRISONER DILEMMA; PSYCHOLOGY; RECREATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PRISONER DILEMMA; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84939554988     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu159     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. APA. (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
2. Assaf, M., et al. (2009). Brain activity dissociates mentalization from motivation during an interpersonal competitive game. Brain Imaging Behavior, 3(1), 24-37.
3. Assaf, M., et al. (2010). Abnormal functional connectivity of default mode sub-networks in autism spectrum disorder patients. Neuroimage, 53(1), 247-56.
4. Axelrod, R., Hamilton, W.D. (1981). The evolution of cooperation. Science, 211(4489), 165-78.
5. Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A.M., Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"? Cognition, 21(1), 37-46.
6. Bellini, S. (2006). The development of social anxiety in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 21(3), 138-45.
7. Boucher, J. (1999). Pretend play as improvisation: conversation in the preschool classroom. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 164-5.
8. Carter, E.J., et al. (2012a). Is he being bad? Social and language brain networks during social judgment in children with autism. PLoS One, 7(10), e47241.
9. Carter, R.M., et al. (2012b). A distinct role of the temporal-parietal junction in predicting socially guided decisions. Science, 337(6090), 109-11.
10. Cascio, C.J., et al. (2012). Response of neural reward regions to food cues in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Neurodevlopmental Disorders, 4(1), 9.
11. Cascio, C.J., et al. (2013). Affective neural response to restricted interests in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55(2), 162-71.
12. Chevallier, C., et al. (2012). The social motivation theory of autism. Trends in Cognitive Science, 16(4), 231-9.
13. Chiu, P.H., et al. (2008). Self responses along cingulate cortex reveal quantitative neural phenotype for high-functioning autism. Neuron, 57(3), 463-73.
14. Chumbley, J.R., Friston, K.J. (2009). False discovery rate revisited: FDR and topological inference using Gaussian random fields. Neuroimage, 44(1), 62-70.
15. Church, C., Alisanski, S., Amanullah, S. (2000). The social, behavioral, and academic experiences of children with Asperger syndrome. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilties, 15(1), 12-20.
16. Corbett, B.A., et al. (2008). Variable cortisol circadian rhythms in children with autism and anticipatory stress. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 33(3), 227-34.
17. Corbett, B.A., et al. (2009). A functional and structural study of emotion and face processing in children with autism. Psychiatry Research, 173(3), 196-205.
18. Corbett, B.A., et al. (2010). Elevated cortisol during play is associated with age and social engagement in children with autism. Molecular Autism, 1(1), 13.
19. Corbett, B.A., et al. (2014). Biobehavioral profiles of arousal and social motivation in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55(8), 924-34.
20. Craig, A.D. (2004). Human feelings: why are some more aware than others? Trends in Cognitive Science, 8(6), 239-41.
21. Critchley, H.D., et al. (2004). Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness. Nature Neuroscience, 7(2), 189-95.
22. Dawson, G., et al. (1998). Children with autism fail to orient to naturally occurring social stimuli. Journal of Autism and Developmental disorders, 28(6), 479-85.
23. Dawson, G., et al. (2002). Neural correlates of face and object recognition in young children with autism spectrum disorder, developmental delay, and typical development. Child Development, 73(3), 700-17.
24. Delgado, M.R., et al. (2005). An fMRI study of reward-related probability learning. Neuroimage, 24(3), 862-73.
25. Delmonte, S., et al. (2012). Social and monetary reward processing in autism spectrum disorders. Molecular Autism, 3(1), 7.
26. Deykin, A., et al. (2007). Combination therapy with a long-acting beta-agonist and a leukotriene antagonist in moderate asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 175(3), 228-34.
27. Dichter, G.S. (2012a). Functional magnetic resonance imaging of autism spectrum disorders. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 14(3), 319-51.
28. Dichter, G.S., et al. (2012b). Reward circuitry function in autism during face anticipation and outcomes. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(2), 147-60.
29. Emonds, G., et al. (2012). The cognitive demands on cooperation in social dilemmas: an fMRI study. Social Neuroscience, 7(5), 494-509.
30. Emonds, G., et al. (2014). Establishing cooperation in a mixed-motive social dilemma. An fMRI study investigating the role of social value orientation and dispositional trust. Social Neuroscience, 9(1), 10-22.
31. Farmer-Dougan, V., Kaszuba, T. (1999). Reliability and validity of play-based observation: relationship between the PLAY Behavior Observation System and Standardized measures of cognitive social skills. Educational Psychology, 19, 429-40.
32. Frith, U., Frith, C.D. (2003). Development and neurophysiology of mentalizing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences, 358(1431), 459-73.
33. Gossen, A., et al. (2013). Neural evidence for an association between social proficiency and sensitivity to social reward. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(5), 661-70.
34. Hauck, M., et al. (1995). Social initiations by autistic children to adults and other children. Journal of Autism Developmental Disorders, 25(6), 579-95.
35. Hirstein, W., Iversen, P., Ramachandran, V.S. (2001). Autonomic responses of autistic children to people and objects. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences, 268 (1479), 1883-8.
36. Holm, S. (1979). A simple sequentially rejective multiple test procedure. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 6, 65-70.
37. Humphrey, N., Symes, W. (2011). Peer interaction patterns among adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) in mainstream school settings. Autism, 15(4), 397-419.
38. Ingram, D.H., et al. (2007). Assessing children with autism, mental retardation, and typical development using the Playground Observation Checklist. Autism, 11(4), 311-9.
39. Kidd, S.A., et al. (2012). Daytime secretion of salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase in preschool-aged children with autism and typically developing children. Journal of Autism Developmental Disorders, 42(12), 2648-58.
40. King-Casas, B., et al. (2005). Getting to know you: reputation and trust in a two-person economic exchange. Science, 308(5718), 78-83.
41. Kircher, T., et al. (2009). Online mentalising investigated with functional MRI. Neuroscience Letters, 454(3), 176-81.
42. Klin, A. (1991). Young autistic children's listening preferences in regard to speech: a possible characterization of the symptom of social withdrawal. Journal of Autism Developmental Disorders, 21(1), 29-42.
43. Kohls, G., et al. (2013). Reward system dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(5), 565-72.
44. Lombardo, M.V., et al. (2011). Specialization of right temporo-parietal junction for mentalizing and its relation to social impairments in autism. Neuroimage, 56(3), 1832-8.
45. Lord, C., et al. (1999). Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-WPS. Los Angeles, CA: Western Psychological Services.
46. Macintosh, K., Dissanayake, C. (2006). A comparative study of the spontaneous social interactions of children with high-functioning autism and children with Asperger's disorder. Autism, 10(2), 199-220.
47. McClure-Tone, E.B., et al. (2011). Preliminary findings: neural responses to feedback regarding betrayal and cooperation in adolescent anxiety disorders. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36(4), 453-72.
48. Noldus. (2008). The Observer XT (10.5). Wageningen, The Netherlands: Noldus Information Technology.
49. Panksepp, J., Siviy, S., Normansell, L. (1984). The psychobiology of play: theoretical and methodological perspectives. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 8(4), 465-92.
50. Patel, R.S., Bowman, F.D., Rilling, J.K. (2006). A Bayesian approach to determining connectivity of the human brain. Human Brain Mapping, 27(3), 267-76.
51. Petersen, A.C., et al. (1988). A self-report measure of pubertal status: reliability, validity and initial norms. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 17(2), 117-31.
52. Pfeifer, J.H., et al. (2013). Neural and behavioral responses during self-evaluative processes differ in youth with and without autism. Journal of Autism Developmental Disorders, 43(2), 272-85.
53. Riby, D.M., Hancock, P.J. (2008). Viewing it differently: social scene perception in Williams syndrome and autism. Neuropsychologia, 46(11), 2855-60.
54. Rilling, J.K., et al. (2002). A neural basis for social cooperation. Neuron, 35(2), 395-405.
55. Rilling, J.K., et al. (2004). The neural correlates of theory of mind within interpersonal interactions. Neuroimage, 22(4), 1694-703.
56. Rilling, J.K., et al. (2007). Neural correlates of social cooperation and non-cooperation as a function of psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry, 61(11), 1260-71.
57. Rilling, J.K., King-Casas, B., Sanfey, A.G. (2008a). The neurobiology of social decisionmaking. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 18(2), 159-65.
58. Rilling, J.K., et al. (2008b). The neural correlates of the affective response to unreciprocated cooperation. Neuropsychologia, 46(5), 1256-66.
59. Rubia, K., et al. (2009). Methylphenidate normalises activation and functional connectivity deficits in attention and motivation networks in medication-naive children with ADHD during a rewarded continuous performance task. Neuropharmacology, 57(7-8), 640-52.
60. Rutter, M., Bailey, A., Lord, C. (2003). The Social Communication Questionnaire. Los Angeles, CA: Western Psychological Services.
61. Sally, D. (2003). Dressing the mind properly for the game. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Science, 358(1431), 583-92.
62. Sally, D., Hill, E. (2006). The development of interpersonal strategy: autism, theory-ofmind, cooperation and fairness. Journal of Economic Psychology, 27, 73-97.
63. Sanfey, A.G., et al. (2003). The neural basis of economic decision-making in the Ultimatum Game. Science, 300(5626), 1755-8.
64. Schmitz, N., et al. (2008). Neural correlates of reward in autism. British Journal of Psychiatry, 192(1), 19-24.
65. Schupp, C.W., Simon, D., Corbett, B.A. (2013). Cortisol responsivity differences in children with autism spectrum disorders during free and cooperative play. Journal of Autism Developmental and Disorders, 43(10), 2405-17.
66. Scott-Van Zeeland, A.A., et al. (2010). Reward processing in autism. Autism Research, 3(2), 53-67.
67. Singer, T., et al. (2004). Brain responses to the acquired moral status of faces. Neuron, 41(4), 653-62.
68. Stallen, M., Sanfey, A.G. (2013). The cooperative brain. Neuroscientist, 19(3), 292-303.
69. Suzuki, S., et al. (2011). Neural basis of conditional cooperation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(3), 338-47.
70. Tedeschi, J.T., Hiester, D., Gahagan, J.P. (1969). Matrix values and the behavior of children in the prisoner's dilemma game. Child Development, 40(2), 517-27.
71. Terasawa, Y., et al. (2013). Anterior insular cortex mediates bodily sensibility and social anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affect Neuroscience, 8(3), 259-66.
72. Tomlin, D., et al. (2006). Agent-specific responses in the cingulate cortex during economic exchanges. Science, 312(5776), 1047-50.
73. Watanabe, T., et al. (2012). Diminished medial prefrontal activity behind autistic social judgments of incongruent information. PLoS One, 7(6), e39561.
74. Wechsler, D. (1999). Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation.
75. Weigelt, S., Koldewyn, K., Kanwisher, N. (2012). Face identity recognition in autism spectrum disorders: a review of behavioral studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(3), 1060-84.
76. White, S.W., Roberson-Nay, R. (2009). Anxiety, social deficits, and loneliness in youth with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism Developmental and Disorders, 39(7), 1006-13.
77. White, S.W., et al. (2009). Anxiety in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Clinical Psychological Review, 29(3), 216-29.
78. Wilson, C.E., Brock, J., Palermo, R. (2010). Attention to social stimuli and facial identity recognition skills in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54(12), 1104-15.
79. Yerys, B.E., et al. (2009). The fMRI success rate of children and adolescents: typical development, epilepsy, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorders. Human Brain Mapping, 30(10), 3426-35.
80. Zald, D.H. (2003). The human amygdala and the emotional evaluation of sensory stimuli. Brain Research Brain Research Review, 41(1), 88-123.
81. Zorrilla, E.P., Koob, G.F. (2013). Amygalostriatal projections in the neurocircuitry for motivation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(9), 1932-45.