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21401220

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-5-3
pubmed:abstractText
Typically developing children understand and predict others' behavior by extracting and processing relevant information such as the logic of their actions within the situational constraints and the intentions conveyed by their gaze direction and emotional expressions. Children with autism have difficulties understanding and predicting others' actions. With the use of eye tracking and behavioral measures, we investigated action understanding mechanisms used by 18 children with autism and a well-matched group of 18 typically developing children. Results showed that children with autism (a) consider situational constraints in order to understand the logic of an agent's action and (b) show typical usage of the agent's emotional expressions to infer his or her intentions. We found (c) subtle atypicalities in the way children with autism respond to an agent's direct gaze and (d) marked impairments in their ability to attend to and interpret referential cues such as a head turn for understanding an agent's intentions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1939-0599
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
(c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
47
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
841-56
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Intact and impaired mechanisms of action understanding in autism.
pubmed:affiliation
Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. g.vivanti@latrobe.edu.au
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't