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Social attribution skills of children born preterm at very low birth weight

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DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
卷 26, 期 4, 页码 889-900

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579414000522

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Children born prematurely at very low birth weight (, 1500 g) are at increased risk for impairments affecting social functioning, including autism spectrum disorders (e.g., Johnson et al., 2010). In the current study, we used the Happe-Frith animated triangles task (Abell, Happe, & Frith, 2000) to study social attribution skills in this population. In this task, typical viewers attribute intentionality and mental states to shapes, based on characteristics of their movements. Participants included 34 preterm children and 36 full-term controls, aged 8-11 years. Groups were comparable in terms of age at test, gender, handedness, and socioeconomic status; they also performed similarly on tests of selective attention/processing speed and verbal intelligence. Relative to full-term peers, preterm children's descriptions of the animations were less appropriate overall; they also overattributed intentionality/mental states to randomly moving shapes and underattributed intentionality/mental states to shapes that seemed to be interacting socially. Impairments in the ability to infer the putative mental states of triangles from movement cues alone were most evident in children displaying more autistic-like traits, and this may reflect atypical development of and/or functioning in, or atypical connections between, parts of the social brain.

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