Atypical Social Judgment and Sensitivity to Perceptual Cues in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Forgeot d'Arc, Baudouin; Ramus, Franck; Lefebvre, Aline; Brottier, Delphine; Zalla, Tiziana; Moukawane, Sanaa; Amsellem, Frédérique; Letellier, Laurence; Peyre, Hugo; Mouren, Marie-Christine; Leboyer, Marion; Delorme, Richard
Titel	Atypical Social Judgment and Sensitivity to Perceptual Cues in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46 (2016) 5, S.1574-1581 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-014-2208-5
Schlagwörter	Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Cues; Interpersonal Relationship; Stimuli; Photography; Visual Aids; Disabilities; Autism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Anreizsystem; Fotografie; Anschauungsmaterial; Handicap; Behinderung; Autismus
Abstract	Evaluation of faces is an important dimension of social relationships. A degraded sensitivity to facial perceptual cues might contribute to atypical social interactions in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current study investigated whether face based social judgment is atypical in ASD and if so, whether it could be related to a degraded sensitivity to facial perceptual cues. Individuals with ASD (n = 33) and IQ- and age-matched controls (n = 38) were enrolled in this study. Watching a series of photographic or synthetic faces, they had to judge them for "kindness". In synthetic stimuli, the amount of perceptual cues available could be either large or small. We observed that social judgment was atypical in the ASD group on photographic stimuli, but, contrarily to the prediction based on the degraded sensitivity hypothesis, analyses on synthetic stimuli found a similar performance and a similar effect of the amount of perceptual cues in both groups. Further studies on perceptual differences between photographs and synthetic pictures of faces might help understand atypical social judgment in ASD. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01