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[Anonymous No.]

Autistic children may find the human voice unpleasant, researchers say

>A new brain-imaging study from Stanford University might explain why autistic children have difficulty with verbal communication: they may not derive pleasure from the human voice.

>Daniel Abrams, lead researcher of the study, found that those with autism showed weaker connections between the brain’s voice-processing areas and its “reward” centers, suggesting that children with autism do not get the same pleasure from the human voice as most developing children.

>In speech, we not only convey information, we also convey emotion and social cues. It’s long been known that autism is associated with difficulty reading those cues, and that those with more severe autism may be completely indifferent to the human voice.

>There are competing theories on why this is. One theory involves problems in the brain’s sound processing, while another theory is that social cues, including speech, don’t hit the brain’s reward system as expected. The results of this theory lend credence to the latter.

>These findings were derived using functional MRI, which allowed researchers to measure brain activity by watching changes in blood flow.

>Twenty “high-functioning” autistic children, averaging 10 years old were scanned, while another 19 children without autism within the same age and IQ range were scanned as a control group.

>The results showed children with autism having a weaker connection between the area of the brain that responds to the human voice and brain regions that release the dopamine in response to rewards. There was also a weaker link between the brain’s voice processors and the brain region involved in emotion.

[Anonymous No.]

I could have told you that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060758

That might explain why I always ignored people when I was younger. My parents had me tested to see if I was deaf.

[Anonymous No.]

Well I'm autistic and I fucking hate people all together, and not just your whiny, weaselly, disgusting voice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060788
That's okay, we hate you too, sperglord.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060796
Oh, thank god, I thought we we're going to have a problem there

[Mush !lYtRBoeK.2 No.]

I think female Jap singing is nice, and in basically autistic, so that proves this wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

Maybe they find it unpleasant because they tend to get yelled at.

[Anonymous No.]

So I am autistic, I am not surprised.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11060815

No, female Jap's are trained to sound appealing to autists.