Atypical autonomic nervous system complexity accompanies social cognition task performance in ASD

For the RMET task, our results may suggest atypical activation of parasympathetic influences on the heart, which contributes to short-term patterns in the heartbeat signal, as well as atypicalities in the slower acting processes. Results also suggest that the coupling between the fast-acting and slow-acting influences may be atypical in ASD during the examined social cognition task.