期刊
CORTEX
卷 166, 期 -, 页码 207-232出版社
ELSEVIER MASSON, CORP OFF
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.05.008
关键词
Autism; Neurodevelopmental conditions; Synchronization; Cross-domain; Adults
This study investigates the relationship between social and non-social behaviors in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and finds that individuals with ASD demonstrate differentiated strategies in behavior compared to typically-developed individuals. The results highlight the individual-centered nature of domain-specific behaviors in ASD, providing evidence against a general synchronization deficit and emphasizing the importance of individualized developmental heterogeneity in acquiring these behaviors.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition with a highly heterogeneous adult phenotype that includes social and non-social behavioral characteristics. The link between the characteristics assignable to the different domains remains unresolved. One possibility is that social and non-social behaviors in autism are modulated by a common underlying deficit. However, here we report evidence supporting an alternative concept that is individual-centered rather than deficit-centered. Individuals are assumed to have a distinctive style in the strategies they adopt to perform social and non-social tasks with these styles presumably being structured differently between autistic individuals and typically-developed (TD) individuals. We tested this hypothesis for the execution of time-coordinated (synchronized) actions. Participants performed (i) a social task that required synchronized gaze and pointing actions to interact with another person, and (ii) a non-social task that required finger-tapping actions synchronized to periodic stimuli at different time-scales and sensory modalities. In both tasks, synchronization behavior differed between ASD and TD groups. However, a principal component analysis of individual behaviors across tasks revealed associations between social and non-social features for the TD persons but such cross-domain associations were strikingly absent for autistic individuals. The highly differentiated strategies between domains in ASD are inconsistent with a general synchronization deficit and instead highlight the individualized developmental heterogeneity in the acquisition of domain-specific behaviors. We propose a cognitive model to help disentangle individual-centered from deficit-centered
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