Gowen, Emma Poliakoff, Ellen Shepherd, Hayley Stadler, Waltraud
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Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research
Action prediction involves observing and predicting the actions of others and plays an important role in social cognition and interacting with others. It is thought to use simulation, whereby the observers use their own motor system to predict the observed actions. As individuals diagnosed with autism are characterized by difficulties understanding...
Georgopoulos, Marie Antonia Brewer, Neil Lucas, Carmen A Young, Robyn L
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Emotion recognition difficulties are considered to contribute to social-communicative problems for autistic individuals. Prior research has been dominated by a focus on forced-choice recognition response accuracy for static face presentations of basic emotions, often involving small samples. Using free-report and multiple-choice response formats, w...
Wang, Lijuan Xie, Tingting Ma, Huan Xu, Miao Xie, Xiaochun
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A previous study found that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have better recall when they perform instructions (subject-performed task [SPT]) than when they passively hear instructions (verbal task [VT]) in a working memory task for instructions, an effect that is called the SPT effect. This study explored whether the SPT effect exhibit...
John Thurman, Angela Hoyos Alvarez, Cesar Nguyen, Vivian
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Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research
In the present study, we provide a preliminary evaluation of the validity and reliability of using weighting procedures to measure communication in play samples for preschool-aged boys with autism or fragile X syndrome (FXS). Because weighting procedure communication scores (WPCSs) reflect growth in both communicative frequency and complexity, esta...
Liu, Si-Yu Wang, Xin Chen, Qiang Chen, Jia-Jie Jin, Cheng-Kai Zhan, Xiao-Ling Guo, Cui-Hua Li, Xiu-Hong Lin, Li-Zi Jing, Jin
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This study aims to validate the simplified Chinese version of the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) in children aged 2-12 years from both general and clinical populations. We recruited 819 Chinese children in this study, including 505 typically developing (TD) children, 202 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 112 children with n...
Moffitt, Jacquelyn M Ahn, Yeojin Amy Custode, Stephanie Tao, Yudong Mathew, Emilin Parlade, Meaghan Hale, Melissa Durocher, Jennifer Alessandri, Michael Perry, Lynn K
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Assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) relies on expert clinician observation and judgment, but objective measurement tools have the potential to provide additional information on ASD symptom severity. Diagnostic evaluations for ASD typically include the autism diagnostic observation schedule (ADOS-2), a semi-structured assessment composed of...
Wang, Guangshuai Chen, Jingying Zhang, Kun Tang, Suyun Wang, Guanghai
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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at high risk for sleep disturbances, but the mechanism underlying the association between sleep disturbances and ASD core symptoms is largely unknown. This study examined the relationship between sleep disturbances and ASD core symptoms, and the mediating role of gaze patterns during the facial emoti...
Fears, Nicholas E Palmer, Stephanie A Miller, Haylie L
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It is well-documented that intelligence quotient (IQ) is a poor predictor of adaptive behavior scores in autism, with autistic children having lower adaptive behavior scores than would be predicted based on their IQ scores. Differences in motor skills may explain the variability in their adaptive behavior scores. The current study examined how moto...
Palomo, Rubén Ozonoff, Sally Young, Gregory S Belinchón Carmona, Mercedes
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According to the Social Motivation model children with autism show deficits in social orienting (looking at faces and responding to name) at the end of their first year of life. In this model, those deficits are both the earliest behavioral consequences of an alteration in the dopamine reward system balance and the foundation of the social impairme...
Levin, Yuval Hosamane, Nishitha S McNair, Taylor E Kunnam, Shrujana S Philpot, Benjamin D Fan, Zheng Sidorov, Michael S
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Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in the maternal copy of the UBE3A gene. AS is characterized by intellectual disability, impaired speech and motor skills, epilepsy, and sleep disruptions. Multiple treatment strategies to re-express functional neuronal UBE3A from the dormant paternal allele...
