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When the typical children saw the experimenter reach for the apple, this muscle became more active but reaching for the paper triggered no such response. Even when the experimenter was just reaching for the apple, the children were already aware of his final goal and their mouth-opening muscle tensed in hungry anticipation. But this didn’t happen in the autistic children – their mylohyoid muscles didn’t tense in either the apple or the paper trial.
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