Virtual Reality Immersion Rescales Regulation of Interpersonal Distance in Controls but Not in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Simões, Marco; Mouga, Susana; Pereira, Andreia C.; de Carvalho, Paulo; Oliveira, Guiomar; Castelo-Branco, Miguel
Titel	Virtual Reality Immersion Rescales Regulation of Interpersonal Distance in Controls but Not in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50 (2020) 12, S.4317-4328 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Castelo-Branco, Miguel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-020-04484-6
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Social Behavior; Computer Simulation; Nonverbal Communication; Personal Space + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Intimsphäre
Abstract	Interpersonal distance (IPD) is a simple social regulation metric which is altered in autism. We performed a stop-distance paradigm to evaluate IPD regulation in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and control groups in a real versus a virtual environment mimicking in detail the real one. We found a bimodal pattern of IPDs only in ASD. Both groups showed high IPD correlations between real and virtual environments, but the significantly larger slope in the control group suggests rescaling, which was absent in ASD. We argue that loss of nuances like non-verbal communication, such as perception of subtle body gestures in the virtual environment, lead to changed regulation of IPD in controls, whilst ASD participants show similar deficits in perceiving such subtle cues in both environments. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01