An Electrophysiological Investigation of Semantic Incongruity Processing by People with Asperger's Syndrome

Autor/inn/en	Ring, Howard; Sharma, Simeran; Wheelwright, Sally; Barrett, Geoff
Titel	An Electrophysiological Investigation of Semantic Incongruity Processing by People with Asperger's Syndrome
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37 (2007) 2, S.281-290 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-006-0167-1
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Semantics; Sentence Structure; Medicine; Asperger Syndrome; Diagnostic Tests; Measures (Individuals); Control Groups; Cues + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Semantik; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Medizin; Asperger-Syndrom; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Messdaten; Stichwort
Abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate whether a physiological measure of impaired use of context could be obtained in people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS). The experimental paradigm employed was the use of electroencephalography to measure the detection of semantic incongruity within written sentences, as indexed by an N400 event-related potential. Whilst the seven controls appropriately demonstrated N400 potentials only to semantically incongruent stimuli, the seven participants with AS inappropriately demonstrated N400 potentials to congruent stimuli. These results are compatible with the possibility that the participants with AS did not use the context within sentences to predict the final word of the sentences. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10