The Influence of Presentation Modality on the Social Comprehension of Naturalistic Scenes in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Gedek, Haley M.; Pantelis, Peter C.; Kennedy, Daniel P.
Titel	The Influence of Presentation Modality on the Social Comprehension of Naturalistic Scenes in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 22 (2018) 2, S.205-215 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361316671011
Schlagwörter	Adults; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Autism; Correlation; Comparative Analysis; Control Groups; Nonverbal Communication; Emotional Development; Recognition (Psychology); Diagnostic Tests; Observation; Intelligence Tests; Depression (Psychology); Measures (Individuals); Indiana; Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule; Wechsler Intelligence Scales Short Forms; Beck Depression Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Korrelation; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Gefühlsbildung; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Beobachtung; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Messdaten
Abstract	The comprehension of dynamically unfolding social situations is made possible by the seamless integration of multimodal information merged with rich intuitions about the thoughts and behaviors of others. We examined how high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder and neurotypical controls made a complex social judgment (i.e. rating the social awkwardness of scenes from a television sitcom) across three conditions that manipulated presentation modality--visual alone, transcribed text alone, or visual and auditory together. The autism spectrum disorder and control groups collectively assigned similar mean awkwardness ratings to individual scenes. However, individual participants with autism spectrum disorder tended to respond more idiosyncratically than controls, assigning ratings that were less correlated with the ratings of the other participants in the sample. We found no evidence that this group difference was isolated to any specific presentation modality. In a comparison condition, we found no group differences when participants instead rated the happiness of characters (a more basic social judgment) in full audiovisual format. Thus, although we observed differences in the manner with which high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder make social judgments compared to controls, these group differences may be dependent on the social dimension being judged, rather than the specific modality of presentation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01