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Mind-Reading in Young Adults with ASD: Does Structure Matter?

Auteurs: Koen Ponnet, Ann Buysse, Herbert Roeyers, Armand De Clercq

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 5/2008

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Abstract

This study further elaborates on the mind-reading impairments of young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The hypothesis is that differences in mind-reading abilities between subjects with ASD and control subjects become more apparent when they have to infer thoughts and feelings of other persons in a less structured or more chaotic conversation, than when they have to do so in a more structured conversation. Conform to the empathic accuracy design, subjects viewed two videotaped interactions depicting two strangers and attempted to infer thoughts and feelings. One of the videotaped conversations was less structured than in the other. The results underscore the significance of structure to the mind-reading abilities of young adults with ASD.
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Sample sentences uttered by the targets in the second videotape were: “We have to know each other very well, so tell me everything about your studies”, “What’s the next question on the list?” or “Do we share some interests?” (see Appendix A).
 
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The 13 items were synonyms or were connected semantically with each other (e.g. “structured”, “organized“, “surveyable”, “coherent”, and “predictable”).
 
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A non-parametric test (Mann–Whitney U) revealed similar results, with = −3.35, ≤ 0.001 for video 1 and = −1.66, ns, for video 2. The mean rank for the controls was 28.98 on video 1 and 25.70 on video 2, while the mean rank for the ASD group was 16.02 on video 1 and 19.30 on video 2.
 
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\( \begin{aligned}{} z_{1} - z_{2} \\ \overline{{{\sqrt {{\frac{1} {{n_{1} - 3}} + \frac{1} {{n_{2} - 3}}} }}}} . \\ \end{aligned} \)
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Mind-Reading in Young Adults with ASD: Does Structure Matter?
Auteurs
Koen Ponnet
Ann Buysse
Herbert Roeyers
Armand De Clercq
Publicatiedatum
01-05-2008
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 5/2008
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-007-0462-5