Zapata-Fonseca, Leonardo ORCID: 0000-0001-9793-9791, Froese, Tom ORCID: 0000-0002-9899-5274, Schilbach, Leonhard ORCID: 0000-0001-5547-8309, Vogeley, Kai and Timmermans, Bert ORCID: 0000-0002-0404-8912 (2018). Sensitivity to Social Contingency in Adults with High-Functioning Autism during Computer-Mediated Embodied Interaction. Behav. Sci., 8 (2). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2076-328X

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Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can be understood as a social interaction disorder. This makes the emerging second-person approach to social cognition a more promising framework for studying ASD than classical approaches focusing on mindreading capacities in detached, observer-based arrangements. According to the second-person approach, embodied, perceptual, and embedded or interactive capabilities are also required for understanding others, and these are hypothesized to be compromised in ASD. We therefore recorded the dynamics of real-time sensorimotor interaction in pairs of control participants and participants with High-Functioning Autism (HFA), using the minimalistic human-computer interface paradigm known as perceptual crossing (PC). We investigated whether HFA is associated with impaired detection of social contingency, i.e., a reduced sensitivity to the other's responsiveness to one's own behavior. Surprisingly, our analysis reveals that, at least under the conditions of this highly simplified, computer-mediated, embodied form of social interaction, people with HFA perform equally well as controls. This finding supports the increasing use of virtual reality interfaces for helping people with ASD to better compensate for their social disabilities. Further dynamical analyses are necessary for a better understanding of the mechanisms that are leading to the somewhat surprising results here obtained.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Zapata-Fonseca, LeonardoUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0001-9793-9791UNSPECIFIED
Froese, TomUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-9899-5274UNSPECIFIED
Schilbach, LeonhardUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0001-5547-8309UNSPECIFIED
Vogeley, KaiUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Timmermans, BertUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-0404-8912UNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-197227
DOI: 10.3390/bs8020022
Journal or Publication Title: Behav. Sci.
Volume: 8
Number: 2
Date: 2018
Publisher: MDPI
Place of Publication: BASEL
ISSN: 2076-328X
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
DECISION-MAKING; COGNITION; INDIVIDUALS; RECOGNITION; DYNAMICS; FEMALES; MINDMultiple languages
Psychology, MultidisciplinaryMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19722

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