15:00 - 16:30
Submission 154
Auditory Distraction and Self-Reported Autistic Traits
Posterwall-46
Presented by: Lejla Alikadic
Lejla AlikadicJan Philipp Röer
Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
This poster presents a series of three preregistered experiments in which we replicated classic auditory distraction effects in young nonautistic adults and examined their relationship with self-reported autistic traits, which previously have been found to be associated with difficulties in auditory processing of natural speech and negative emotions. In Experiment 1, we replicated (1) the changing-state effect, which refers to an increased disruption by changing-state distractors relative to steady-state distractors, and (2) the auditory deviant effect, which refers to increased disruption of auditory deviant distractors relative to steady-state distractors. In Experiment 2, we replicated (3) the taboo effect which refers to increased disruption by irrelevant taboo words relative to irrelevant neutral words. In Experiment 3, we found (4) equivalent disruption by unintelligible and intelligible natural speech as is typically the case. In none of the experiments, however, we found evidence for an association between auditory distractibility and individual differences in self-reported autistic traits.