Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants with autism spectrum disorders and healthy controls
| Group; mean ± SD* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweep localization | Noise localization and precedence | |||||
| Characteristic | ASD | Control | p value | ASD | Control | p value |
| Group size, no. | 18 | 20 | — | 10 | 10 | — |
| Male, no. | 11 | 11 | — | 6 | 5 | — |
| Female, no. | 7 | 9 | — | 4 | 5 | — |
| Age, yr | 27.8 ± 4.5 | 23.3 ± 4.1 | 0.003 | 26.5 ± 5.2 | 23.3 ± 4.1 | 0.15 |
| Raven APM score† | 25.9 ± 4.8 | 28.0 ± 4.6 | 0.20 | 28.5 ± 2.8 | 25.9 ± 3.7 | 0.12 |
| AU, no. | 6 | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| AS, no. | 12 | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| Social interaction, ADI-R† | 15.3 ± 5.6 | — | — | 15.3 ± 6.6 | — | — |
| Communication, ADI-R† | 11.6 ± 3.8 | — | — | 11.3 ± 3.4 | — | — |
| Behaviour, ADI-R† | 3.4 ± 1.3 | — | — | 3.0 ± 1.4 | — | — |
ADI-R = Autism Diagnostic Interview—Revised; APM = Advanced Progressive Matrices; AS = Asperger syndrome; ASD = autism spectrum disorders; AU = autism; SD = standard deviation.
↵* Unless indicated otherwise.
↵† The APM and ADI-R scores were not available for all participants (APM: 4 missing values, ADI-R: see main text).