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01-01-2010 | Original Paper

Unimpaired Perception of Social and Physical Causality, but Impaired Perception of Animacy in High Functioning Children with Autism

Auteurs: Sara Congiu, Anne Schlottmann, Elizabeth Ray

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 1/2010

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Abstract

We investigated perception of social and physical causality and animacy in simple motion events, for high-functioning children with autism (CA = 13, VMA = 9.6). Children matched 14 different animations to pictures showing physical, social or non-causality. In contrast to previous work, children with autism performed at a high level similar to VMA-matched controls, recognizing physical causality in launch and social causality in reaction events. The launch deficit previously found in younger children with autism, possibly related to attentional/verbal difficulties, is apparently overcome with age. Some events involved squares moving non-rigidly, like animals. Children with autism had difficulties recognizing this, extending the biological motion literature. However, animacy prompts amplified their attributions of social causality. Thus children with autism may overcome their animacy perception deficit strategically.
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The same results obtained for correlations between VIQ and children’s accuracy, with only 3 of 45 correlations within and across groups significant.
 
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ANOVA on categorical data is appropriate if proportions are not extreme (e.g., Lunney 1970; Rosenthal and Rosnow 1984).
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Unimpaired Perception of Social and Physical Causality, but Impaired Perception of Animacy in High Functioning Children with Autism
Auteurs
Sara Congiu
Anne Schlottmann
Elizabeth Ray
Publicatiedatum
01-01-2010
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 1/2010
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-009-0824-2