Publication Cover
Child Neuropsychology
A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Volume 19, 2013 - Issue 3
1,101
Views
11
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Processing of musical structure by high-functioning adolescents with autism spectrum disorders

, , , &
Pages 250-275 | Received 02 Jun 2010, Accepted 26 Nov 2011, Published online: 07 Mar 2012

REFERENCES

  • Allen , M. H. , Lincoln , A. J. and Kaufman , A. S. 1991 . Sequential and simultaneous processing abilities of high-functioning autistic and language-impaired children . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 21 : 483 – 502 . doi: 10.1007/BF02206872
  • Allen , R. , Hill , E. and Heaton , P. 2009 . “Hath charms to soothe … ”: An exploratory study of how high-functioning adults with ASD experience music . Autism , 13 ( 1 ) : 21 – 41 . doi: 10.1177/ 1362361307098511
  • Altgassen , M. , Kliegel , M. and Williams , T. I. 2005 . Pitch perception in children with autistic spectrum disorders . British Journal of Developmental Psychology , 23 : 543 – 558 . doi: 10.1348/026151005X26840
  • American Psychiatric Association . 2000 . Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (text revision) , Washington , DC : American Psychiatric Association .
  • Barnes , K. A. , Howard , D. V. , Howard , J. H. , Gilotty , L. , Kenworth , L. Gaillard , W. D. 2008 . Intact implicit learning of spatial context and temporal sequences in childhood autism spectrum disorder . Neuropsychology , 22 : 563 – 570 . doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.22.5.563
  • Baron-Cohen , S. 2002 . The extreme male brain theory of autism . Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 6 ( 6 ) : 248 – 254 . doi: 10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01904-6
  • Baron-Cohen , S. 2009 . Autism: The Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) Theory . Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , 1156 : 68 – 80 . doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04467.x
  • Baron-Cohen , S. , Leslie , A. M. and Frith , U. 1986 . Mechanical, behavioral, and intentional understanding of picture stories in autistic children . British Journal of Developmental Psychology , 4 : 113 – 125 . doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(85)90022-8
  • Baron-Cohen , S. , Wheelwright , S. , Lawson , J. , Griffin , R. , Ashwin , C. Billington , J. 2005 . “ Empathizing and Systemizing in autism spectrum conditions ” . In Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders , Edited by: Volkmar , F. R. , Paul , R. , Klin , A. and Cohen , D. Vol. 1 , 628 – 649 . Hoboken , NJ : John Wiley & Sons .
  • Bhatara , A. , Quintin , E. M. , Levy , B. , Bellugi , U. , Fombonne , E. and Levitin , D. J. 2010 . Perception of emotion in musical performance in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders . Autism Research , 3 ( 5 ) : 214 – 225 . doi: 10.1080/09297040802603653
  • Bigand , E. and Poulin-Charronnat , B. 2006 . Are we “experienced listeners”? A review of the musical capacities that do not depend on formal musical training . Cognition , 100 : 100 – 130 . doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.11.007
  • Bonnel , A. , McAdams , S. , Smith , B. , Berthiaume , C. , Bertone , A. Ciocca , V. 2010 . Enhanced pure-tone pitch discrimination among persons with autism but not Asperger syndrome . Neuropsychologia , 48 : 2465 – 2475 . doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia. 2010.04.020
  • Bonnel , A. , Mottron , L. , Peretz , I. , Trudel , M. , Gallun , E. and Bonnel , A.-M. 2003 . Enhanced pitch sensitivity in individuals with autism: A signal detection analysis . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 15 ( 2 ) : 226 – 235 . doi: 10.1162/089892903321208169
  • Caron , M.-J. , Mottron , L. , Berthiaume , C. and Dawson , M. 2006 . Cognitive mechanisms, specificity and neural underpinnings of visuospatial peaks in autism . Brain , 129 : 1789 – 1802 . doi: 10.1093/brain/awl072
  • Cohen , J. 1992 . A power primer . Psychological Bulletin , 112 : 155 – 159 . doi: 10.1037/0033- 2909.112.1.155
  • Constantino , J. N. , Davis , S. , Todd , R. , Schindler , M. , Gross , M. Brophy , S. 2003 . Validation of a brief quantitative measure of autistic traits: Comparison of the Social Responsiveness Scale with the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 33 : 427 – 433 . doi: 10.1023/A:1025014929212
  • Cuddy , L. L. , Balkwill , L.-L. , Peretz , I. and Holden , R. R. 2005 . Musical difficulties are rare: A study of “tone deafness” among university students . Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , 1060 : 311 – 324 . doi: 10.1196/annals.1360.026
  • Fombonne , E. 2009 . Epidemiology of pervasive developmental disorders . Pediatric Research , 65 : 591 – 598 . doi: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e31819e7203
  • Foxton , J. M. , Stewart , M. E. , Barnard , L. , Rodgers , J. , Young , A. H. O'Brien , G . 2003 . Absence of auditory “global interference” in autism . Brain , 126 : 2703 – 2709 . doi: 10.1093/brain/awg274
  • Frith , U. 1972 . Cognitive mechanisms in autism: Experiments with color and tone sequence production . Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia , 2 ( 2 ) : 160 – 173 . doi: 10.1007/BF01537569
  • Frith , U. 1989 . Autism: Explaining the enigma , Oxford : United Kingdom: Blackwell .
  • Frith , U. and Snowling , N. 1983 . Reading for meaning and reading for sound in autistic and dyslexic children . British Journal of Developmental Psychology , 1 : 329 – 342 .
  • Gallese , V. 2006 . Intentional attunement: A neurophysiological perspective on social cognition and its disruption in autism . Brain Research , 1079 ( 1 ) : 15 – 24 . doi: 10.1016/j.brainres. 2006.01.054
  • Gidley Larson , J. C. and Mostofsky , S. H. 2008 . Evidence that the pattern of visuomotor sequence learning is altered in children with autism . Autism Research , 1 : 341 – 358 . doi: 10.1002/aur.54
  • Gordon , B. and Stark , S. 2007 . Procedural learning of a visual sequence in individuals with autism . Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities , 22 ( 1 ) : 14 – 22 . doi: 10.1177/10883576070220010201
  • Hala , S. , Pexman , P. M. and Glenwright , M. 2007 . Priming the meaning of homographs in typically developing children and children with autism . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 37 : 329 – 340 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0162-6
  • Happé , F. 1994 . Weschler IQ profile and theory of mind in autism: A research note . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 35 : 1461 – 1471 . doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1994.tb01287.x
  • Happé , F. 1996 . Studying weak central coherence at low levels: Children with autism do not succumb to visual illusions: A research note . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 37 : 873 – 877 . doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01483.x
  • Happé , F. 1999 . Autism: Cognitive deficit or cognitive style? . Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 3 ( 6 ) : 216 – 222 . doi: 10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01318-2
  • Happé , F. and Frith , U. 2006 . The weak coherence account: Detail-focused cognitive style in autism spectrum disorders . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 36 ( 1 ) : 5 – 25 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-005-0039-0
  • Heaton , P. 2003 . Pitch memory, labelling and disembedding in autism . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 44 : 543 – 551 . doi: 10.1111/1469-7610.00143
  • Heaton , P. 2005 . Interval and contour processing in autism . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 35 : 787 – 793 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-005-0024-7
  • Heaton , P. 2009 . Assessing musical skills in autistic children who are not savants . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences , 364 : 1443 – 1447 . doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0327
  • Heaton , P. , Allen , R. , Williams , K. , Cummins , O. and Happé , F. 2008 . Do social and cognitive deficits curtail musical understanding?: Evidence from autism and Down syndrome . British Journal of Developmental Psychology , 26 : 171 – 182 . doi: 10.1348/ 026151007X206776
  • Heaton , P. , Hermelin , B. and Pring , L. 1998 . Autism and pitch processing: A precursor for savant musical ability . Music Perception , 15 ( 3 ) : 291 – 305 .
  • Heaton , P. , Hermelin , B. and Pring , L. 1999 . Can children with autistic spectrum disorders perceive affect in music?: An experimental investigation . Psychological Medicine , 29 : 1405 – 1410 . doi: 10.1017/S0033291799001221
  • Heaton , P. , Pring , L. and Hermelin , B. 1999 . A pseudo-savant: A case of exceptional musical splinter skills . Neurocase , 5 : 503 – 509 . doi: 10.1080/13554799908402745
  • Heaton , P. , Williams , K. , Cummins , O. and Happé , F. G. 2007 . Beyond perception: Musical representation and on-line processing in autism . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 37 : 1355 – 1360 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0283-y
  • Huron , D. 2006 . Sweet anticipation: Music and the psychology of expectation , Cambridge , MA : MIT Press .
  • Joliffe , T. and Baron-Cohen , S. 1997 . Are people with autism and Asperger syndrome faster than normal on the embedded figures test? . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 38 ( 5 ) : 527 – 534 . doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01539.x
  • Joliffe , T. and Baron-Cohen , S. 1999 . A test of central coherence theory: Linguistic processing in high-functioning adults with autism or Asperger syndrome: Is local coherence impaired? . Cognition , 71 : 149 – 185 . doi: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00022-0
  • Kern , P. , Wolery , M. and Aldridge , D. 2007 . Use of songs to promote independence in morning greeting routines for young children with autism . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 37 : 1264 – 1271 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0272-1
  • Kim , J. , Wigram , T. and Gold , C. 2008 . The effects of improvisational music therapy on joint atttention behaviors in autistic children: A randomized controlled study . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 38 : 1758 – 1766 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-008-0566-6
  • Klin , A. , McPartland , J. and Volkmar , F. R. 2005 . “ Asperger Syndrome ” . In Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders , Edited by: Volmar , F. R. , Paul , R. , Klin , A. and Cohen , D. Vol. 1 , 88 – 125 . Hoboken , NJ : John Wiley & Sons .
  • Lessard , N. , Paré , M. , Lepore , F. and Lassonde , M. 1998 . Early-blind human subjects localize sound sources better than sighted subjects . Nature , 395 : 278 – 280 . doi: 10.1038/ 26228
  • Levitin , D. J. , Cole , K. , Chiles , M. , Lai , Z. , Lincoln , A. and Bellugi , U. 2004 . Characterizing the musical phenotype in individuals with Williams syndrome . Child Neuropsychology , 10 ( 4 ) : 223 – 247 . doi: 10.1080/09297040490909288
  • Levitin , D. J. , Cole , K. , Lincoln , A. and Bellugi , U. 2005 . Aversion, awareness, and attraction: Investigating claims of hyperacusis in the Williams syndrome phenotype . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 45 : 514 – 523 . doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00376.x
  • Lincoln , A. J. , Courchesne , E. , Kilman , B. A. , Elmasian , R. and Allen , M. 1988 . A study of intellectual abilities in high functioning people with autism . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 18 : 505 – 524 . doi: 10.1007/BF02211870
  • Luria , A. K. 1973 . The working brain: An introduction to neuropsychology , New York , NY : Basic Books .
  • McGonigle-Chalmers , M. , Bodner , K. , Fox-Pitt , A. and Nicholson , L. 2007 . Size sequencing as a window on executive control in children with autism and Asperger's syndrome . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 38 : 1382 – 1390 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-007- 0396-y
  • Mostofsky , S. H. , Goldberg , M. C. , Landa , R. J. and Denckla , M. B. 2000 . Evidence for a deficit in procedural learning in children and adolescents with autism: Implications for cerebellar contribution . Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , 6 : 752 – 759 . doi: 10.1017/S1355617700677020
  • Mottron , L. and Burack , J. A. 2001 . “ Enhanced perceptual functioning in the development of autism ” . In The development of autism: Perspectives from theory to research , Edited by: Burack , J. A. , Charman , T. , Yirmiya , N. and Zelazo , P. R. 131 – 147 . Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum .
  • Mottron , L. , Dawson , M. , Soulières , I. , Hubert , B. and Burack , J. 2006 . Enhanced perceptual functioning in autism: An update, and eight principles of autistic perception . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 36 ( 1 ) : 27 – 43 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-005-0040-7
  • Mottron , L. , Peretz , I. and Ménard , E. 2000 . Local and global processing of music in high-functioning persons with autism: Beyond central coherence? . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 41 : 1057 – 1065 . doi: 10.1111/1469-7610.00693
  • Murphy , K. R. and Myors , B. 1999 . Testing the hypothesis that treatments have negligible effects: Minimum-effect tests in the General Linear Model . Journal of Applied Psychology , 84 ( 2 ) : 234 – 248 . doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.84.2.234
  • Quintin , E. M. , Bhatara , A. , Poissant , H. , Fombonne , E. and Levitin , D. J. 2011 . Emotion perception in music in high functioning adolescents with autism spectrum disorders . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 41 ( 9 ) : 1240 – 55 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-010-1146-0
  • Rutter , M. , Bailey , A. and Lord , C. 2003 . SCQ: Social communication questionnaire , Los Angeles , CA : Western Psychological Services .
  • Schmukler , M. A. 1989 . Expectation in music: Investigation of melodic and harmonic processes . Music Perception , 7 ( 2 ) : 109 – 150 .
  • Schmukler , M. A. 1990 . The performance of global expectation . Psychomusicology , 9 ( 2 ) : 122 – 147 .
  • Shah , A. and Frith , U. 1993 . Why do autistic individuals show superior performance on the block design task? . Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 34 : 1351 – 1364 . doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb02095.x
  • Siegel , D. J. , Minshew , N. J. and Goldstein , G. 1996 . Wechsler IQ profiles in diagnosis of high-functioning autism . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 26 : 389 – 406 . doi: 10.1007/BF02172825
  • Spek , A. A. , Scholte , E. M. and van Berckelaer-Onnes , I. A. 2008 . Brief report: The use of WAIS-III in adults with HFA and Asperger syndrome . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 32 : 782 – 787 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-007-0446-5
  • Strauss , E. , Sherman , E. M. and Spreen , O. 2006 . A compendium of neuropsychological tests: Administration, norms, and commentary , 3rd , New York , NY : Oxford University Press .
  • Thalheimer, W., & Cook, S. (2002). How to calculate effect sizes from published research: A simplified methodology. Work Learning Research. http://work-learning.com/effect_sizes.htm (http://work-learning.com/effect_sizes.htm)
  • Tillmann , B. 2005 . Implicit investigations of tonal knowledge in nonmusician listeners . Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , 1060 : 100 – 110 . doi: 10.1196/annals.1360.007
  • Tupper , D. E. 1999 . Introduction: Neuropsychological assessment après Luria . Neuropsychology Review , 9 ( 2 ) : 57 – 61 . doi: 10.1023/A:1025693006186
  • Wan , C. Y. , Demaine , K. , Zipse , L. , Norton , A. and Schlaug , G. 2010 . Form music making to speaking: Engaging the mirror neuron system in autism . Brain Research Bulletin , 82 : 161 – 168 . doi: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2010.04.010
  • Wechsler , D. 1999 . Wechsler abbreviated scale of intelligence , San Antonio , TX : Harcourt Assessment .
  • Wechsler , D. 2003 . Wechsler scale of intelligence for children , 4th Canadian , Toronto, Ontario , , Canada : Harcourt Assessment .
  • Whipple , J. 2004 . Music in intervention for children and adolescents with autism: A meta-analysis . Journal of Music Therapy , 41 ( 2 ) : 90 – 106 .
  • Zalla , T. , Labruyere , N. and Georgieff , N. 2006 . Goal-directed action representation in autism . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 36 : 527 – 540 . doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0092-3

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.