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Assessing False-Belief Understanding in Children with Autism Using a Computer Application: A Pilot Study
We have developed a False-Belief (FB) understanding task for use on a computer tablet, trying to assess FB understanding in a less social way. It is based on classical FB protocols, and additionally includes a manipulation of language in an attempt to explore the facilitating effect of linguistic su...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6153757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29582220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-018-9579-2 |
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author | Carlsson, Emilia Miniscalco, Carmela Gillberg, Christopher Åsberg Johnels, Jakob |
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description | We have developed a False-Belief (FB) understanding task for use on a computer tablet, trying to assess FB understanding in a less social way. It is based on classical FB protocols, and additionally includes a manipulation of language in an attempt to explore the facilitating effect of linguistic support during FB processing. Specifically, the FB task was presented in three auditory conditions: narrative, silent, and interference. The task was assumed to shed new light on the FB difficulties often observed in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Sixty-eight children with ASD (M = 7.5 years) and an age matched comparison group with 98 typically developing (TD) children were assessed with the FB task. The children with ASD did not perform above chance level in any condition, and significant differences in success rates were found between the groups in two conditions (silent and narrative), with TD children performing better. We discuss implications, limitations, and further developments. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10936-018-9579-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-61537572018-10-04 Assessing False-Belief Understanding in Children with Autism Using a Computer Application: A Pilot Study Carlsson, Emilia Miniscalco, Carmela Gillberg, Christopher Åsberg Johnels, Jakob J Psycholinguist Res Article We have developed a False-Belief (FB) understanding task for use on a computer tablet, trying to assess FB understanding in a less social way. It is based on classical FB protocols, and additionally includes a manipulation of language in an attempt to explore the facilitating effect of linguistic support during FB processing. Specifically, the FB task was presented in three auditory conditions: narrative, silent, and interference. The task was assumed to shed new light on the FB difficulties often observed in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Sixty-eight children with ASD (M = 7.5 years) and an age matched comparison group with 98 typically developing (TD) children were assessed with the FB task. The children with ASD did not perform above chance level in any condition, and significant differences in success rates were found between the groups in two conditions (silent and narrative), with TD children performing better. We discuss implications, limitations, and further developments. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10936-018-9579-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2018-03-26 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6153757/ /pubmed/29582220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-018-9579-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Carlsson, Emilia Miniscalco, Carmela Gillberg, Christopher Åsberg Johnels, Jakob Assessing False-Belief Understanding in Children with Autism Using a Computer Application: A Pilot Study |
title | Assessing False-Belief Understanding in Children with Autism Using a Computer Application: A Pilot Study |
title_full | Assessing False-Belief Understanding in Children with Autism Using a Computer Application: A Pilot Study |
title_fullStr | Assessing False-Belief Understanding in Children with Autism Using a Computer Application: A Pilot Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing False-Belief Understanding in Children with Autism Using a Computer Application: A Pilot Study |
title_short | Assessing False-Belief Understanding in Children with Autism Using a Computer Application: A Pilot Study |
title_sort | assessing false-belief understanding in children with autism using a computer application: a pilot study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6153757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29582220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-018-9579-2 |
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