Table 3.

Summary of the patterns of rhythmicity observed in wild primates and the observed oscillomic differences in ASD compared to TD subjects.

Frequency band	Oscillomic monkey profile	Oscillopathic profile of autism spectrum disorder
Delta (~0.5–4 Hz)	Decreased phase-amplitude coupling with γ yields increased visual attention, suggesting that cross-frequency coupling suppression modulates attention.	Increased in eyes-closed resting state exam; predicted to be disrupted in processing phrases involving raising and passives.
Theta (~4–10 Hz)	Decreased phase-amplitude coupling with γ yields increased visual attention; greater HPC-PFC synchrony after object pair association errors.	Reduced cross-frequency coupling with γ; does not synergistically engage with γ during speech; predicted to be disrupted in certain memory retrieval processes.
Alpha (~8–12 Hz)	Increased synchrony with β during correct object pair associations.	Reduced cross-cortically; reduced resting-state α-γ phase amplitude coupling; increased in resting state; predicted to be disrupted during certain lexicalizations.
Beta (~10–30 Hz)	Increased synchrony with α during object pair associations; increases during continuation phase of a synchronization-continuation task.	Reduced in picture-naming tasks; predicted to be disrupted in the maintenance of syntactic objects in raising, passives and wh-questions.
Gamma (~30–100 Hz)	Involved in processing snake and face images increases during action sequence updating and memory consolidation, reactivation, and transfer.	Over-connectivity gives rise to increased γ; reduced in rSTG and lIFG during picture naming; predicted to be disrupted quite generally in linguistic cognition.