When music rethinks empathy in autism: A commentary on Heaton (2025)

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Zhong, Y. (2025). When music rethinks empathy in autism: A commentary on Heaton (2025). Research in Neurodiversity, 1, 100005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rin.2025.100005

Publication date: 18 Oct 2025 Added to AutiHub: 24 Sep 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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  1. Yiqing Zhong *

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21
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20
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1
7 / 21 (33.3%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
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49 / 68 (72.1%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 19 / 68 (27.9%) names are not yet linked.
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18 / 68 (26.5%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 18 / 49 (36.7%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 17 / 61 (27.9%).
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    Type: Article DOI: 10.1177/1362361320964306 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W3095757981
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  11. Jack Brett , David A. Preece , Rodrigo Becerra , Andrew Whitehouse , Murray Maybery (2025). Empathy and autism: establishing the structure and different manifestations of empathy in autistic individuals using the Perth empathy scale . Journal of Autism and developmental Disorders, 55(11), 3941-3954. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06491-3 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W4401431193
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  15. Sue Fletcher-Watson , Geoffrey Bird (2020). Autism and empathy: What are the real links? Autism, 24(1), 3-6. SAGE Publications.
    Type: Article DOI: 10.1177/1362361319883506 OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/W2977702811
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  16. Fricker (2007). Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing .
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  18. Kaja Korošec , Walter Osika , Eva Bojner-Horwitz (2024). “It is more Important than food sometimes”; Meanings and Functions of Music in the Lives of Autistic Adults Through a hermeneutic-phenomenological Lense . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 54(1), 366-378. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
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  19. Pamela Heaton (2025). Autism, musicality, and empathy: Through the lens of first-person accounts . Research in Neurodiversity, 1, 100001. Elsevier BV.
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