Journal
COGNITIVE PROCESSING
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 195-203Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-016-0752-y
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Neurotypical children; Autism; Emotion; Verbal expression; Minimalistic robots; Embrainment
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26280077] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Atypical neural architecture causes impairment in communication capabilities and reduces the ability of representing the referential statements of other people in children with autism. During a scenery of speaker-listener communication, we have analyzed verbal and emotional expressions in neurotypical children (n = 20) and in children with autism (n = 20). The speaker was always a child, and the listener was a human or a minimalistic robot which reacts to speech expression by nodding only. Although both groups performed the task, everything happens as if the robot could allow children with autism to elaborate a multivariate equation encoding and conceptualizing within his/her brain, and externalizing into unconscious emotion (heart rate) and conscious verbal speech (words). Such a behavior would indicate that minimalistic artificial environments such as toy robots could be considered as the root of neuronal organization and reorganization with the potential to improve brain activity.
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