Characterization of implicit and explicit mind-reading in children with autism based on eye movements.

IF 3.2 3区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Frontiers in Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-10-30 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1449995

Haidan Lu, Juanli Niu, Jiaxin Wang, Min Liu, Mingyu Xu

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Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to investigate differences in mind-reading abilities between children with autism and typically developing children across various tasks.

Methods: Sixteen children with autism (aged 5-8 years) were compared to 16 typically developing children matched in language ability. The unexpected location task and unexpected content task were used to assess implicit and explicit mind-reading abilities using an eye tracker and illustrated storybooks.

Results: For implicit mind, using differential looking scores shows a no significant difference between the scores of children with autism and typically developing children in the implicit tasks (P=0.399). However, the pupil size show some significant difference between two groups. Second, for the explicit, a significant difference between the scores of children with autism and typically developing children in the explicit tasks (P=0.006). Additionally, only a significant correlation between implicit and explicit mind-reading abilities in children with autism in the unexpected location task was found.

Conclusion: The mechanism of implicit mind-reading still not very clear. Pupil-Linked arousal response can be consider as a further tool. Further research on implicit and explicit mind-reading abilities is warranted.

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根据眼球运动分析自闭症儿童内隐和外显读心术的特征。

研究目的本研究旨在调查自闭症儿童与发育正常儿童在不同任务中的读心能力差异：将 16 名患有自闭症的儿童（5-8 岁）与 16 名语言能力相匹配的发育正常儿童进行比较。使用眼动仪和图文并茂的故事书，通过意想不到的位置任务和意想不到的内容任务来评估内隐和外显读心能力：在内隐性读心能力方面，使用不同的视线得分显示，自闭症儿童和发育正常儿童在内隐性任务中的得分没有显著差异（P=0.399）。但是，瞳孔大小在两组儿童之间有显著差异。其次，在显性任务中，自闭症儿童和发育正常儿童的显性任务得分存在显著差异（P=0.006）。此外，只有在意外位置任务中，自闭症儿童的内隐读心能力和外显读心能力之间存在显著相关：结论：内隐读心的机制仍不十分明确。瞳孔联动唤醒反应可作为进一步研究的工具。关于内隐和外显读心能力的研究还有待进一步深入。

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Frontiers in Psychiatry Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health

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6.20

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8.50%

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2813

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Frontiers in Psychiatry publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research across a wide spectrum of translational, basic and clinical research. Field Chief Editor Stefan Borgwardt at the University of Basel is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal''s mission is to use translational approaches to improve therapeutic options for mental illness and consequently to improve patient treatment outcomes.