Importance The social motivation hypothesis posits that individuals with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) find social stimuli less rewarding than do people with neurotypical activity.
However, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of reward processing have
yielded mixed results. Objectives To examine whether individuals with ASD process
rewarding stimuli differently than typically developing individuals (controls), whether
differences are limited to social rewards, and whether contradictory findings in the literature�…