Un test no-verbal de atribución social para niños y adolescentes con trastornos del espectro autista
Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Although it is well established that people with Autism Spectrum Disorders experience a generalized difficulty in mentalising, some very able individuals do pass high level theory of mind (TOM) tasks. It is believed that the use of their well developed cognitive-verbal reasoning skills compensates for the lack of mentalising and facilitates the success on TOM tasks. This paper presents a procedure to test mentalising ability through a totally non-verbal Test of Social Attribution. Eighty subjects with high-functioning autism or Asperger Syndrome (ASD) (N=20) and with age appropriate IQ and language scores, normally developing children aged 8-9 (N=20) and 12-13 (N=20) and adults (N=20) participated in this study. The results indicate significantly lower performance in the clinical group and a significant correlation between their performance and the time invested in attributing meaning to the animations. In the normally developing groups, there was evidence of a developmental trend with performance improving from late childhood into adolescence and then adulthood. This study provides support for a deficit in mentalising, and provides a basis for further investigation of the nature of the relationship between movement perception and social abilities.
Institution: Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3011055093