Individuals with autistic traits exhibit heightened alexithymia but intact interoceptive-exteroceptive sensory integration

HX Yang, HY Zhou, H Zheng, Y Wang… - Journal of Autism and …, 2021 - Springer
Interoceptive accuracy has been widely measured using the Heartbeat Tracking Test (HTT).
We devised the novel paradigm of Interoception-Exteroception Synchronicity Judgement …

Multidimensional interoception and autistic traits across life stages: Evidence from a novel eye-tracking task

H Yang, H Zhou, Z Wei, G Wan, Y Wang… - Journal of Autism and …, 2021 - Springer
Interoception is believed to underlie socio-cognitive functions which are often impaired in
individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In this study, Experiment 1 examined in a …

[HTML][HTML] The link between interoceptive processing and anxiety in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder: Extending adult findings into a developmental …

ER Palser, A Fotopoulou, E Pellicano, JM Kilner - Biological Psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Anxiety is a major associated feature of autism spectrum disorders. The incidence of anxiety
symptoms in this population has been associated with altered interoceptive processing …

Characterizing interoceptive differences in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis of case–control studies

ZJ Williams, E Suzman, SL Bordman… - Journal of autism and …, 2023 - Springer
Interoception, the body's perception of its own internal states, is thought to be altered in
autism, though results of empirical studies have been inconsistent. The current study …

Interoceptive impairments do not lie at the heart of autism or alexithymia.

TM Nicholson, DM Williams, C Grainger… - Journal of abnormal …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Quattrocki and Friston (2014) argued that abnormalities in interoception—the process of
representing one's internal physiological states—could lie at the heart of autism, because of …

Dissociation in how core autism features relate to interoceptive dimensions: Evidence from cardiac awareness in children

ER Palser, A Fotopoulou, E Pellicano… - Journal of Autism and …, 2020 - Springer
Interoception in autism is receiving increasing research attention. Previously, differences
were identified in autism on both objective and subjective measures of interoception, and an …

Decreased interoceptive accuracy in children with autism spectrum disorder and with comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

H Yang, H Zhou, Y Li, Y Cui, Y Xiang, R Yuan… - Autism …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Interoception refers to the awareness of internal physiological state. Several previous
studies reported that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and adults with attention …

The relationship between subjective difficulty in interoceptive processing and accuracy of heartbeat perception in autistic individuals

C Itoi, Y Ujiie, Y Ooishi, M Kashino - Discover Mental Health, 2024 - Springer
Most autistic people experience difficulties in sensory processing, including interoceptive
processing. For example, they often report subjective difficulties in the interoceptive …

Associations between interoceptive cognition and age in autism spectrum disorder and typical development

LE Mash, KB Schauder, C Cochran… - Journal of …, 2017 - connect.springerpub.com
Interoceptive awareness is linked to emotional and social cognition, which are impaired in
individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is unknown how this ability is associated …

[HTML][HTML] Alexithymia, not autism, is associated with impaired interoception

P Shah, R Hall, C Catmur, G Bird - cortex, 2016 - Elsevier
It has been proposed that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is associated with difficulties
perceiving the internal state of one's body (ie, impaired interoception), causing the socio …