Unimpaired Perception of Social and Physical Causality, but Impaired Perception of Animacy in High Functioning Children with Autism

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Congiu ◽  
Anne Schlottmann ◽  
Elizabeth Ray
Keyword(s):  
Children With Autism ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
Physical Causality

scholarly journals White matter integrity and pictorial reasoning in high-functioning children with autism

2010 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chérif P. Sahyoun ◽  
John W. Belliveau ◽  
Maria Mody
Keyword(s):  
White Matter ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
White Matter Integrity ◽  
High Functioning

scholarly journals Passive sentence reversal errors in autism: Replicating Ambridge, Bidgood, and Thomas (2020)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel David Jones ◽  
Madeline Dooley ◽  
Ben Ambridge
Keyword(s):  
High Functioning Autism ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Thematic Role ◽  
Role Assignment ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
Constituent Order ◽  
Passive Sentence ◽  
Reversal Errors

Ambridge, Bidgood, and Thomas (2020) conducted an elicitation-production task in which children with and without (high-functioning) autism described animations following priming with passive sentences. The authors report that children with autism were more likely than IQ-matched children without autism to commit reversal errors, for instance describing a scene in which the character Wendy surprised the character Bob by saying Wendy was surprised by Bob. We set out to test whether this effect replicated in a new sample of children with and without (high-functioning) autism (N = 26), and present a cumulative analysis in which data from the original study and the replication were pooled (N = 56). The main effect reported by Ambridge et al. (2020) replicated: While children with and without autism produced a similar number of passive responses in general, the responses of children with autism were significantly more likely to include reversal errors. Despite age- appropriate knowledge of constituent order in passive syntax, thematic role assignment is impaired among some children with high-functioning autism.

scholarly journals Friendship in High-functioning Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Mixed and Non-mixed Dyads

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 1211-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirit Bauminger ◽  
Marjorie Solomon ◽  
Anat Aviezer ◽  
Kelly Heung ◽  
John Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
High Functioning

scholarly journals Preserved Imitation of Known Gestures in Children with High-Functioning Autism

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana C. Carmo ◽  
Raffaella I. Rumiati ◽  
Roma Siugzdaite ◽  
Paolo Brambilla
Keyword(s):  
High Functioning Autism ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
Action Imitation ◽  
Dual Route ◽  
Dual Route Model ◽  
Transitive Gestures ◽  
Better Than

It has been suggested that children with autism are particularly deficient at imitating novel gestures or gestures without goals. In the present study, we asked high-functioning autistic children and age-matched typically developing children to imitate several types of gestures that could be either already known or novel to them. Known gestures either conveyed a communicative meaning (i.e., intransitive) or involved the use of objects (i.e., transitive). We observed a significant interaction between gesture type and group of participants, with children with autism performing known gestures better than novel gestures. However, imitation of intransitive and transitive gestures did not differ across groups. These findings are discussed in light of a dual-route model for action imitation.

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