Bengali translation and characterisation of four cognitive and trait measures for autism spectrum conditions in India / A. RUDRA in Molecular Autism, 7 (2016)  

Public ISBD [article]  inMolecular Autism > 7 (2016) . - 50p. Titre : Bengali translation and characterisation of four cognitive and trait measures for autism spectrum conditions in India Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : A. RUDRA, Auteur ; J. R. RAM, Auteur ; T. LOUCAS, Auteur ; Matthew K. BELMONTE, Auteur ; Bhismadev CHAKRABARTI, Auteur Article en page(s) : 50p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Adolescent  Autism Spectrum Disorder/physiopathology/psychology  Case-Control Studies  Child  Cognition/physiology  Cross-Cultural Comparison  Empathy  Facial Expression  Female  Humans  India  Intelligence Tests/standards  Language  Male  Regression Analysis  Social Skills  Surveys and Questionnaires  Theory of Mind  Translations  Assessment  Autism  Behaviour  Bengali  Central coherence  Perceptual construal  Theory of mind  Translation  Validity Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Autism is characterised by atypical social-communicative behaviour and restricted range of interests and repetitive behaviours. These features exist in a continuum in the general population. Behavioural measures validated across cultures and languages are required to quantify the dimensional traits of autism in these social and non-social domains. Bengali is the seventh most spoken language in the world. However, there is a serious dearth of data on standard measures of autism-related social and visual cognition in Bengali. METHODS: Bengali translations of two measures related to social-communicative functioning (the Children's Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) and a facial emotion recognition test with stimuli taken from the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces database), one measure of visual perceptual disembedding (the Embedded Figures Test), and a questionnaire measure (the Children's Empathy Quotient) were tested in 25 children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) and 26 control children (mean age = 10.7 years) in Kolkata, India. Group differences were analysed by t test and multiple regression (after accounting for potential effects of gender, IQ, and age). RESULTS: Behavioural and trait measures were associated with group differences in the expected directions: ASC children scored lower on the Children's Empathy Quotient and the RMET, as well as on facial emotion recognition, but were faster and more accurate on the Embedded Figures Test. Distributional properties of these measures within groups are similar to those reported in Western countries. CONCLUSIONS: These results provide an empirical demonstration of cross-cultural generalisability and applicability of these standard behavioural and trait measures related to autism, in a major world language. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-016-0111-y Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=329 [article] Bengali translation and characterisation of four cognitive and trait measures for autism spectrum conditions in India [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / A. RUDRA, Auteur ; J. R. RAM, Auteur ; T. LOUCAS, Auteur ; Matthew K. BELMONTE, Auteur ; Bhismadev CHAKRABARTI, Auteur . - 50p. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Molecular Autism > 7 (2016) . - 50p. Mots-clés : Adolescent  Autism Spectrum Disorder/physiopathology/psychology  Case-Control Studies  Child  Cognition/physiology  Cross-Cultural Comparison  Empathy  Facial Expression  Female  Humans  India  Intelligence Tests/standards  Language  Male  Regression Analysis  Social Skills  Surveys and Questionnaires  Theory of Mind  Translations  Assessment  Autism  Behaviour  Bengali  Central coherence  Perceptual construal  Theory of mind  Translation  Validity Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Autism is characterised by atypical social-communicative behaviour and restricted range of interests and repetitive behaviours. These features exist in a continuum in the general population. Behavioural measures validated across cultures and languages are required to quantify the dimensional traits of autism in these social and non-social domains. Bengali is the seventh most spoken language in the world. However, there is a serious dearth of data on standard measures of autism-related social and visual cognition in Bengali. METHODS: Bengali translations of two measures related to social-communicative functioning (the Children's Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) and a facial emotion recognition test with stimuli taken from the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces database), one measure of visual perceptual disembedding (the Embedded Figures Test), and a questionnaire measure (the Children's Empathy Quotient) were tested in 25 children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) and 26 control children (mean age = 10.7 years) in Kolkata, India. Group differences were analysed by t test and multiple regression (after accounting for potential effects of gender, IQ, and age). RESULTS: Behavioural and trait measures were associated with group differences in the expected directions: ASC children scored lower on the Children's Empathy Quotient and the RMET, as well as on facial emotion recognition, but were faster and more accurate on the Embedded Figures Test. Distributional properties of these measures within groups are similar to those reported in Western countries. CONCLUSIONS: These results provide an empirical demonstration of cross-cultural generalisability and applicability of these standard behavioural and trait measures related to autism, in a major world language. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-016-0111-y Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=329

Elephants in Pyjamas: Testing the Weak Central Coherence Account of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Syntactic Disambiguation Task / N. G. RICHES in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46-1 (January 2016)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders > 46-1 (January 2016) . - p.155-163 Titre : Elephants in Pyjamas: Testing the Weak Central Coherence Account of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Syntactic Disambiguation Task Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : N. G. RICHES, Auteur ; T. LOUCAS, Auteur ; Gillian BAIRD, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; E. SIMONOFF, Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : p.155-163 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)  Developmental language impairment  Adolescents Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : According to the weak central coherence (CC) account individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exhibit enhanced local processing and weak part-whole integration. CC was investigated in the verbal domain. Adolescents, recruited using a 2 (ASD status) by 2 (language impairment status) design, completed an aural forced choice comprehension task involving syntactically ambiguous sentences. Half the picture targets depicted the least plausible interpretation, resulting in longer RTs across groups. These were assumed to reflect local processing. There was no ASD by plausibility interaction and consequently little evidence for weak CC in the verbal domain when conceptualised as enhanced local processing. Furthermore, there was little evidence that the processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences differed as a function of ASD or language-impairment status. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2560-0 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=278 [article] Elephants in Pyjamas: Testing the Weak Central Coherence Account of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Syntactic Disambiguation Task [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / N. G. RICHES, Auteur ; T. LOUCAS, Auteur ; Gillian BAIRD, Auteur ; Tony CHARMAN, Auteur ; E. SIMONOFF, Auteur . - 2016 . - p.155-163. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders > 46-1 (January 2016) . - p.155-163 Mots-clés : Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)  Developmental language impairment  Adolescents Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : According to the weak central coherence (CC) account individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exhibit enhanced local processing and weak part-whole integration. CC was investigated in the verbal domain. Adolescents, recruited using a 2 (ASD status) by 2 (language impairment status) design, completed an aural forced choice comprehension task involving syntactically ambiguous sentences. Half the picture targets depicted the least plausible interpretation, resulting in longer RTs across groups. These were assumed to reflect local processing. There was no ASD by plausibility interaction and consequently little evidence for weak CC in the verbal domain when conceptualised as enhanced local processing. Furthermore, there was little evidence that the processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences differed as a function of ASD or language-impairment status. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2560-0 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=278

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