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Intact and Impaired Mechanisms of Action Understanding in Autism
Developmental psychology, v 47(3), pp 841-856
01 May 2011
PMID: 21401220
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Abstract
Typically developing children understand and predict others' behavior by extracting and processing relevant information such as the logic of their actions within the situational constraints and the intentions conveyed by their gaze direction and emotional expressions. Children with autism have difficulties understanding and predicting others' actions. With the use of eye tracking and behavioral measures, we investigated action understanding mechanisms used by 18 children with autism and a well-matched group of 18 typically developing children. Results showed that children with autism (a) consider situational constraints in order to understand the logic of an agent's action and (b) show typical usage of the agent's emotional expressions to infer his or her intentions. We found (c) subtle atypicalities in the way children with autism respond to an agent's direct gaze and (d) marked impairments in their ability to attend to and interpret referential cues such as a head turn for understanding an agent's intentions.
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- Title
- Intact and Impaired Mechanisms of Action Understanding in Autism
- Creators
- Giacomo Vivanti - La Trobe UniversityCarolyn McCormick - Univ Calif Davis, MIND Inst, Davis, CA 95616 USAGregory S. Young - MIND InstituteFloridette Abucayan - MIND InstituteNaomi Hatt - University of California, DavisAparna Nadig - McGill UniversitySally Ozonoff - MIND InstituteSally J. Rogers - MIND Institute
- Publication Details
- Developmental psychology, v 47(3), pp 841-856
- Publisher
- Amer Psychological Assoc
- Number of pages
- 16
- Grant note
- T32 MH073124 / NIMH NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) T32MH073124 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000290083500019
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-79955742222
- Other Identifier
- 991019295298004721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Developmental