1. ABOUT THE DATASET ------------ Title: Autism, pitch perception and cognition Creator(s): Fang Liu, Jia Hoong Ong Organisation(s): School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading Rights-holder(s): University of Reading Publication Year: 2021 Description: This dataset contains data of British English autistic vs. neurotypical participants on 5 pitch tasks (pitch detection task, pitch direction task, speech discrimination task, piano discrimination task, and musical pitch perception task) and 4 cognitive tasks (nonverbal IQ, receptive vocabulary, digit span, and corsi block). Various demographic details were also collected, including age, gender, years of musical training, and autistic traits. Cite as: Liu, Fang and Ong, Jia Hoong (2021): Autism, pitch perception and cognition. University of Reading. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.17864/1947.316 Related publication: Ong, J. H., Zhao, C., Bacon, A., Leung, F. Y. N., Veic, A., Wang, L., Jiang, C., & Liu, F. (in prep.). The relationship between autism and pitch perception is modulated by cognitive abilities Contact: Fang Liu, f.liu@reading.ac.uk 2. TERMS OF USE ----------------- This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION ------------ Title: Cracking the pitch code in music and language: Insights from congenital amusia (CA) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) Dates: 01/12/2016 - 30/11/2022 Funding organisation: European Research Council Grant no.: ERC-2015-StG, 678733, CAASD 4. CONTENTS ------------ File listing The dataset for this study (AutismPitchCogn or APC) contains 6 csv files. The csv files differ in how the participants were matched: - APC_grouplevel: All the participants in the study, matched on age and gender at the group level. - APC_indvlevel_detection: A subset of participants who completed the Pitch Detection task, matched individually on age and gender - APC_indvlevel_direction: A subset of participants who completed the Pitch Direction task, matched individually on age and gender - APC_indvlevel_speech: A subset of participants who completed the Speech Discrimination task, matched individually on age and gender - APC_indvlevel_piano: A subset of participants who completed the Piano Discrimination task, matched individually on age and gender - APC_indvlevel_mbea: A subset of participants who completed the Musical Pitch Perception task (MBEA/MBEMA), matched individually on age and gender Each csv file has the following columns: - Subject: Participant's code - Gender: Participant's gender (F= female; M = male) - Group: Diagnostic group (ASD = Autism; Control = TD) - Years: Cumulative years of musical training - Instrument: Instrument(s) played - NVIQ: Nonverbal IQ score, as indexed using Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices - VIQ: verbal IQ score, as indexed using Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test (ROWPVT-4) - MBEA_Pitch: score on the Musical Perception Task (MBEA/MBEMA), ranges from 0-1 - PT_Speech: pitch threshold on the Speech Discrimination task - PT_Piano: pitch threshold on the Piano Discrimination task - PT_Detection: pitch threshold on the Pitch Detection task - PT_Direction: pitch threshold on the Pitch Direction task - DigitSpan: raw score on the Digit Span task - Corsi: raw score on the Corsi Block task - AQ: Autism Quotient (AQ) score - AgeAtTest: Participant's age at test - AgeGroup: Participant's age group at test (Children: 7-11; Adolescent: 12-15; YA: 16-39; OA:40-60) - cAQ: centred AQ scores, by age group as defined in the test protocol (Children: 7-11, Adolescents: 12-15; Adults: 16+) - cAgeAtTest: centred age at test - cVIQ: centred VIQ score by age group - cNVIQ: centred NVIQ score by age group - cDigitSpan: centred DigitSpan score by age group - cCorsi: centred Corsi Block score by age group - cYears: centred years of musical training by age group 5. METHODS -------------------------- Please refer to the publication in Section 1 on how the dataset was generated.