Intact and Impaired Mechanisms of Action Understanding in Autism

Autor/inn/en	Vivanti, Giacomo; McCormick, Carolyn; Young, Gregory S.; Abucayan, Floridette; Hatt, Naomi; Nadig, Aparna; Ozonoff, Sally; Rogers, Sally J.
Titel	Intact and Impaired Mechanisms of Action Understanding in Autism
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 3, S.841-856 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0023105
Schlagwörter	Cues; Autism; Logical Thinking; Neurological Impairments; Children; Eye Movements; Child Behavior; Comparative Analysis; Environmental Influences; Emotional Response; Inferences; Nonverbal Communication; Stimuli; Video Technology; California; Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule; Clinical Evaluation of Language Functions; Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Autismus; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Augenbewegung; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Emotionales Verhalten; Inference; Inferenz; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Anreizsystem; Kalifornien
Abstract	Typically developing children understand and predict others' behavior by extracting and processing relevant information such as the logic of their actions within the situational constraints and the intentions conveyed by their gaze direction and emotional expressions. Children with autism have difficulties understanding and predicting others' actions. With the use of eye tracking and behavioral measures, we investigated action understanding mechanisms used by 18 children with autism and a well-matched group of 18 typically developing children. Results showed that children with autism (a) consider situational constraints in order to understand the logic of an agent's action and (b) show typical usage of the agent's emotional expressions to infer his or her intentions. We found (c) subtle atypicalities in the way children with autism respond to an agent's direct gaze and (d) marked impairments in their ability to attend to and interpret referential cues such as a head turn for understanding an agent's intentions. (Contains 1 table and 7 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10