Trends Cogn Sci. 2026 Jan 26:S1364-6613(25)00355-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.006. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
Children with autism often struggle to tune in to voices, missing important cues for social connection and language learning. What underlies this diminished engagement? Neuroimaging evidence implicates disrupted connectivity between voice-selective temporal regions and brain networks supporting reward, salience, and social cognition, leading to a new neural model of vocal insensitivity in autism.
PMID:41592973 | PMC:PMC12854504 | DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.006