Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults.

IF 1.7 4区 医学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES
Małgorzata Krawczyk, Amy Pinkham, Karolina Golec-Staśkiewicz, Joanna Wysocka, Łukasz Okruszek
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The present study compares the ability of non-autistic (NA) and autistic adults (ASD) with intellectual functioning in the normal range to process communicative intentions from biological motion (BM) - a capacity often considered as a prerequisite for a higher-order social cognition (SC). Twenty-nine ASD and 29 NA completed two tasks assessing the ability to recognize the communicative cues presented by either one or two point-light agents, as well as one point-light emotion recognition task and additional measures of SC abilities. Autistic participants demonstrated a decreased ability to recognize communicative intentions from BM (p = 0.02 for dyadic and p = 0.03 for single agent task) despite similar levels of neurocognitive and social cognitive functioning. Additional exploratory analyses revealed an indirect trajectory linking the capacity to recognize communication from BM with autism symptoms through social cognitive capacity. Autistic adults may experience difficulties in processing communicative intentions, even in the absence of detectable higher-order SC problems. A possible mechanism might be the engagement in compensatory strategies that are inadequate for detecting lower-order intuitive social cues. Therefore, including tasks that assess the ability to detect communicative cues from BM may be beneficial for autistic adults with high cognitive abilities, in whom SC difficulties might be overlooked.

从自闭症成人的单点和双点光显示中识别交流意图。
本研究比较了正常智力范围内的非自闭症成人(NA)和自闭症成人(ASD)处理来自生物运动(BM)的交际意图的能力,这种能力通常被认为是高阶社会认知(SC)的先决条件。29名ASD和29名NA完成了两项任务,评估识别由一个或两个光点代理呈现的交流线索的能力,以及一项光点情感识别任务和额外的SC能力测量。尽管自闭症参与者的神经认知和社会认知功能水平相似,但他们从BM中识别交际意图的能力却有所下降(二元任务p = 0.02,单智能体任务p = 0.03)。另外的探索性分析揭示了通过社会认知能力将识别来自BM的交流能力与自闭症症状联系起来的间接轨迹。自闭症成人可能在处理交际意图方面遇到困难,即使没有可检测到的高阶SC问题。一种可能的机制可能是参与补偿策略,不足以检测低阶直觉社会线索。因此,包括评估从BM中发现交流线索的能力的任务可能对具有高认知能力的自闭症成年人有益,在这些成年人中,SC困难可能被忽视。
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Social Neuroscience
Social Neuroscience 医学-神经科学
CiteScore
3.40
自引率
5.00%
发文量
36
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Social Neuroscience features original empirical Research Papers as well as targeted Reviews, Commentaries and Fast Track Brief Reports that examine how the brain mediates social behavior, social cognition, social interactions and relationships, group social dynamics, and related topics that deal with social/interpersonal psychology and neurobiology. Multi-paper symposia and special topic issues are organized and presented regularly as well. The goal of Social Neuroscience is to provide a place to publish empirical articles that intend to further our understanding of the neural mechanisms contributing to the development and maintenance of social behaviors, or to understanding how these mechanisms are disrupted in clinical disorders.
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