Intention attribution in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: an EEG study
- The ability to infer intentions from observed behavior and predict actions based on this inference, known as intention attribution (IA), has been hypothesized to be impaired in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The underlying neural processes, however, have not been conclusively determined. The aim of this study was to examine the neural signature of IA in children and adolescents with ASD, and to elucidate potential links to contextual updating processes using electroencephalography. Results did not indicate that IA or early contextual updating was impaired in ASD. However, there was evidence of aberrant processing of expectation violations in ASD, particularly if the expectation was based on IA. Results are discussed within the context of impaired predictive coding in ASD.
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| Author: | Magdalena SchützORCiDGND, Sara BoxhoornORCiDGND, Andreas MühlherrGND, Hannah MössingerORCiD, Christine M. FreitagORCiDGND, Christina LuckhardtORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-695753 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05358-1 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3432 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of autism and developmental disorders |
| Publisher: | Springer Science + Business Media B.V. |
| Place of publication: | Dordrecht [u.a.] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/12/02 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/12/02 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/09/22 |
| Tag: | Autism; EEG; Expectation violation; Intention attribution; Predictive coding; Social cognition |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Page Number: | 13 |
| First Page: | 1431 |
| Last Page: | 1443 |
| Note: | Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 512980330 |
| Institutes: | Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
