Social-Pragmatic Inferencing, Visual Social Attention and Physiological Reactivity to Complex Social Scenes in Autistic Young Adults

This study examined social-pragmatic inferencing, visual social attention and physiological reactivity to complex social scenes. Participants were autistic young adults (n = 14) and a control group of young adults (n = 14) without intellectual disability. Results indicate between-group differences i...

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Autores principales: Dindar, Katja, Loukusa, Soile, Helminen, Terhi M., Mäkinen, Leena, Siipo, Antti, Laukka, Seppo, Rantanen, Antti, Mattila, Marja-Leena, Hurtig, Tuula, Ebeling, Hanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8732855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33638804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04915-y
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Sumario:This study examined social-pragmatic inferencing, visual social attention and physiological reactivity to complex social scenes. Participants were autistic young adults (n = 14) and a control group of young adults (n = 14) without intellectual disability. Results indicate between-group differences in social-pragmatic inferencing, moment-level social attention and heart rate variability (HRV) reactivity. A key finding suggests associations between increased moment-level social attention to facial emotion expressions, better social-pragmatic inferencing and greater HRV suppression in autistic young adults. Supporting previous research, better social-pragmatic inferencing was found associated with less autistic traits. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version of this article 10.1007/s10803-021-04915-y contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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