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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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13-09-2016 | Original Paper

Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Action Prediction in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Condition

Auteurs: Tobias Schuwerk, Beate Sodian, Markus Paulus

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 12/2016

Abstract

Recent research suggests that impaired action prediction is at the core of social interaction deficits in autism spectrum condition (ASC). Here, we targeted two cognitive mechanisms that are thought to underlie the prediction of others’ actions: statistical learning and efficiency considerations. We measured proactive eye movements of 10-year-old children and adults with and without ASC in anticipation of an agent’s repeatedly presented action. Participants with ASC showed a generally weaker tendency to generate action predictions. Further analyses revealed that statistical learning led to systematic accurate action predictions in the control groups. Participants with ASC were impaired in their ability to use frequency information for action predictions. Our findings inform etiological models of impaired social interaction in ASC.

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We opted to analyze the first fixation score this way to be consistent with procedures reported in previous paper (Paulus et al. 2011a, b; Schuwerk and Paulus 2016). Specifically, this decision was based on the following reasons: First, this allowed us to analyze first fixations for repeated trials in one score. Second, nonparametric analyses with recoded variables would have caused the problem of having too many missing values (those trials in which participants fixated neither AOI). Third, the DLS results, the complementary GEE analyses, and the Bayesian statistics are all converging with the first fixation results. Fourth, we re-checked the first fixation results by running nonparametric statistics and found the same pattern of results. In other words, across different measures and analyses we found the same results. This provided converging evidence that our findings are reliable and robust.

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Titel: Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Action Prediction in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Condition
Auteurs: Tobias Schuwerk
Beate Sodian
Markus Paulus
Publicatiedatum: 13-09-2016
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 12/2016
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2899-x

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