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Table 1 Characteristics of study participants

From: Tactile cortical responses and association with tactile reactivity in young children on the autism spectrum

  NT AS Statistics
N 41 28  
Age [years] 5.3 ± 1.1 5.4 ± 1.1 t(67) = − 0.60, p = 0.553
Sex (M:F) 28:13 22:6 Χ2 = 0.88, p = 0.348
Handedness (R:L:A) 38:2:1 27:0:1 Χ2 = 1.46, p = 0.481
SRS-2T-score 45.1 ± 5.8 79.3 ± 12.5 t(34.9) = − 13.60, p < 0.001
Non-verbal IQ 106.4 ± 14.8 95.8 ± 21.9 t(33.0) = 2.92, p = 0.006
Overall tactile reactivity 13.6 ± 3.9 25.4 ± 9.1 F(1,65) = 51.43, p < 0.001
Tactile hyper-reactivity 5.7 ± 2.2 10.6 ± 4.6 F(1,65) = 39.3, p < 0.001
Tactile hypo-reactivity 7.9 ± 2.7 14.55 ± 7.1 F(1,65) = 27.7, p < 0.001
  1. All participants had normal or corrected-to-normal vision. Group differences in sex and handedness between children on the autism spectrum (AS) and a neurotypical (NT) comparison group were assessed using chi-square test. Significant effects are indicated in bold
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Molecular Autism

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