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inResearch in Autism Spectrum Disorders > 101 (March 2023) . - 102105

Titre :	A mind-reading puzzle: Autistic people are more efficient at a theory-of-mind task
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Estefania LOZA, Auteur ; Frédérique AMSELLEM, Auteur ; Tiziana ZALLA, Auteur ; Ariane CARTIGNY, Auteur ; Marion LEBOYER, Auteur ; Richard DELORME, Auteur ; Franck RAMUS, Auteur ; Baudouin FORGEOT D'ARC, Auteur
Article en page(s) :	102105
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés :	Autism  Social cognition  Theory of mind  Executive control  Referential communication
Index. décimale :	PER Périodiques
Résumé :	Theory of Mind (ToM) is essential to adapt in social situations; however, a ToM deficit might be involved in autism. To better understand how ToM reasoning affects problem solving in autistic and non-autistic individuals, we compared autistic and non-autistic children and adults in a series of problems presented in social and non-social framings, using an adapted version of a classical referential communication task. In the social framing, participants were asked to anticipate the behavior of an agent who might ignore some components of the scene. In the non-social framing, the task required participants to consider and ignore similar features of the scene, but an agent was not involved. Simply framing the task as a social one increased the difficulty, particularly for non-autistic participants. Interestingly, the framing had less of an impact on autistic participants, who showed better performance in the social task relative to non-autistics and maintained similar performance across framings. We propose that autistic participants might have translated the social instructions into a general rule that proved more efficient in this situation. Our findings suggest a critical distinction between ToM understanding and the continuous use of a ToM strategy in repeated situations.
En ligne :	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102105
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[article] A mind-reading puzzle: Autistic people are more efficient at a theory-of-mind task [texte imprimé] / Estefania LOZA, Auteur ; Frédérique AMSELLEM, Auteur ; Tiziana ZALLA, Auteur ; Ariane CARTIGNY, Auteur ; Marion LEBOYER, Auteur ; Richard DELORME, Auteur ; Franck RAMUS, Auteur ; Baudouin FORGEOT D'ARC, Auteur . - 102105.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders > 101 (March 2023) . - 102105

Mots-clés :	Autism  Social cognition  Theory of mind  Executive control  Referential communication
Index. décimale :	PER Périodiques
Résumé :	Theory of Mind (ToM) is essential to adapt in social situations; however, a ToM deficit might be involved in autism. To better understand how ToM reasoning affects problem solving in autistic and non-autistic individuals, we compared autistic and non-autistic children and adults in a series of problems presented in social and non-social framings, using an adapted version of a classical referential communication task. In the social framing, participants were asked to anticipate the behavior of an agent who might ignore some components of the scene. In the non-social framing, the task required participants to consider and ignore similar features of the scene, but an agent was not involved. Simply framing the task as a social one increased the difficulty, particularly for non-autistic participants. Interestingly, the framing had less of an impact on autistic participants, who showed better performance in the social task relative to non-autistics and maintained similar performance across framings. We propose that autistic participants might have translated the social instructions into a general rule that proved more efficient in this situation. Our findings suggest a critical distinction between ToM understanding and the continuous use of a ToM strategy in repeated situations.
En ligne :	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102105
Permalink :	https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=492