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

Autor: Antti Rantanen, Tuula Hurtig, Soile Loukusa, Antti Siipo, Katja Dindar, Terhi M. Helminen, Leena Mäkinen, Hanna Ebeling, S. Laukka, Marja Leena Mattila
Přispěvatelé: Tampere University, Welfare Sciences
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
ISSN: 1573-3432
0162-3257
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-021-04915-y
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE