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Explaining enhanced logical consistency during decision making in autism

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posted on 2023-06-08, 13:47 authored by Benedetto De Martino, Neil Harrison, Steven Knafo, Geoff Bird, Raymond J Dolan
The emotional responses elicited by the way options are framed often results in lack of logical consistency in human decision making. In this study, we investigated subjects with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using a financial task in which the monetary prospects were presented as either loss or gain. We report both behavioral evidence that ASD subjects show a reduced susceptibility to the framing effect and psycho-physiological evidence that they fail to incorporate emotional context into the decision-making process. On this basis, we suggest that this insensitivity to contextual frame, although enhancing choice consistency in ASD, may also underpin core deficits in this disorder. These data highlight both benefits and costs arising from multiple decision processes in human cognition.

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Journal

Journal of Neuroscience

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1529-2401

Publisher

Society for Neuroscience

Issue

42

Volume

28

Page range

10746-10750

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  • Clinical and Experimental Medicine Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-11-19

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-03-22

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-11-10

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