Stimulus dependent neural oscillatory patterns show reliable statistical identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in a face perceptual decision task

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication as well as by repetitive and restrictive behaviors and interests (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Given the heterogeneity of this spectrum (Walsh et al., 2011) it is of paramount importance to identify experimental paradigms that are able to target cognitive processes that can be translated into the development of disease related biomarkers. Impaired attentional allocation to social features (including joint attention) (Amaral et al., 2015) or face processing deficits (Tavares et al., 2016) include the type of cognitive processes that might be targeted.

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