Spontaneous Belief Attribution in Younger Siblings of Children on the Autism Spectrum

Autor/inn/en	Gliga, Teodora; Senju, Atsushi; Pettinato, Michèle; Charman, Tony; Johnson, Mark H.
Titel	Spontaneous Belief Attribution in Younger Siblings of Children on the Autism Spectrum
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 50 (2014) 3, S.903-913 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0034146
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Siblings; Cognitive Processes; Metacognition; Eye Movements; Young Children; At Risk Persons; Comparative Analysis; Control Groups; Verbal Ability; Intelligence Quotient; Beliefs; Longitudinal Studies; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Visual Stimuli; Individual Characteristics; Communication Skills; Interpersonal Competence; United Kingdom; Mullen Scales of Early Learning; Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Sibling; Geschwister; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Augenbewegung; Frühe Kindheit; Risikogruppe; Mündliche Leistung; Intelligenzquotient; Belief; Glaube; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ausland; Fragebogen; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Kommunikationsstil; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Großbritannien
Abstract	The recent development in the measurements of spontaneous mental state understanding, employing eye-movements instead of verbal responses, has opened new opportunities for understanding the developmental origin of "mind-reading" impairments frequently described in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Our main aim was to characterize the relationship between mental state understanding and the broader autism phenotype, early in childhood. An eye-tracker was used to capture anticipatory looking as a measure of false beliefs attribution in 3-year-old children with a family history of autism (at-risk participants, n 47) and controls (control participants, n 39). Unlike controls, the at-risk group, independent of their clinical outcome (ASD, broader autism phenotype or typically developing), performed at chance. Performance was not related to children's verbal or general IQ, nor was it explained by children "missing out" on crucial information, as shown by an analysis of visual scanning during the task. We conclude that difficulties with using mental state understanding for action prediction may be an endophenotype of autism spectrum disorders. (As Provided).
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