Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome

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Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena; Rattazzi del Carril, Alexia; González Gadea, María Luz; Torralva, Teresa; Vigliecca, Nora Silvana; Decety, Jean; Manes, Facundo Francisco; Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
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2012
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Deficits in social cognition are an evident clinical feature of the Asperger syndrome (AS). Although many daily life problems of adults with AS are related to social cognition impairments, few studies have conducted comprehensive research in this area. The current study examined multiple domains of social cognition in adults with AS assessing the executive functions (EF) and exploring the intra and inter-individual variability. Fifteen adult´s diagnosed with AS and 15 matched healthy controls completed a battery of social cognition tasks. This battery included measures of emotion recognition, theory of mind (ToM), empathy, moral judgment, social norms knowledge, and self-monitoring behavior in social settings. We controlled for the effect of EF and explored the individual variability. The results indicated that adults with AS had a fundamental deficit in several domains of social cognition. We also found high variability in the social cognition tasks. In these tasks, AS participants obtained mostly subnormal performance. EF did not seem to play a major role in the social cognition impairments. Our results suggest that adults with AS present a pattern of social cognition deficits characterized by the decreased ability to implicitly encode and integrate contextual information in order to access to the social meaning. Nevertheless, when social information is explicitly presented or the situation can be navigated with abstract rules, performance is improved. Our findings have implications for the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with AS as well as for the neurocognitive models of this syndrome.
Fil: Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina "Santa María de los Buenos Aires"; Argentina
Fil: Rattazzi del Carril, Alexia. Argentinean Program for Children, Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders; Argentina
Fil: González Gadea, María Luz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina
Fil: Torralva, Teresa. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina
Fil: Vigliecca, Nora Silvana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Humanidades. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Humanidades; Argentina
Fil: Decety, Jean. University of Chicago; Estados Unidos
Fil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina
Fil: Ibañez, Agustin Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile
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Asperger syndrome
Contextual social cognition
Eexecutive functions
Individual variability
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome
title Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome
spellingShingle Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome
Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena
Asperger syndrome
Contextual social cognition
Eexecutive functions
Individual variability
title_short Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome
title_full Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome
title_fullStr Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome
title_sort Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena
Rattazzi del Carril, Alexia
González Gadea, María Luz
Torralva, Teresa
Vigliecca, Nora Silvana
Decety, Jean
Manes, Facundo Francisco
Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
author Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena
author_facet Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena
Rattazzi del Carril, Alexia
González Gadea, María Luz
Torralva, Teresa
Vigliecca, Nora Silvana
Decety, Jean
Manes, Facundo Francisco
Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
author_role author
author2 Rattazzi del Carril, Alexia
González Gadea, María Luz
Torralva, Teresa
Vigliecca, Nora Silvana
Decety, Jean
Manes, Facundo Francisco
Ibañez, Agustin Mariano
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Asperger syndrome
Contextual social cognition
Eexecutive functions
Individual variability
topic Asperger syndrome
Contextual social cognition
Eexecutive functions
Individual variability
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Deficits in social cognition are an evident clinical feature of the Asperger syndrome (AS). Although many daily life problems of adults with AS are related to social cognition impairments, few studies have conducted comprehensive research in this area. The current study examined multiple domains of social cognition in adults with AS assessing the executive functions (EF) and exploring the intra and inter-individual variability. Fifteen adult´s diagnosed with AS and 15 matched healthy controls completed a battery of social cognition tasks. This battery included measures of emotion recognition, theory of mind (ToM), empathy, moral judgment, social norms knowledge, and self-monitoring behavior in social settings. We controlled for the effect of EF and explored the individual variability. The results indicated that adults with AS had a fundamental deficit in several domains of social cognition. We also found high variability in the social cognition tasks. In these tasks, AS participants obtained mostly subnormal performance. EF did not seem to play a major role in the social cognition impairments. Our results suggest that adults with AS present a pattern of social cognition deficits characterized by the decreased ability to implicitly encode and integrate contextual information in order to access to the social meaning. Nevertheless, when social information is explicitly presented or the situation can be navigated with abstract rules, performance is improved. Our findings have implications for the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with AS as well as for the neurocognitive models of this syndrome.
Fil: Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina "Santa María de los Buenos Aires"; Argentina
Fil: Rattazzi del Carril, Alexia. Argentinean Program for Children, Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders; Argentina
Fil: González Gadea, María Luz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina
Fil: Torralva, Teresa. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina
Fil: Vigliecca, Nora Silvana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Humanidades. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Humanidades; Argentina
Fil: Decety, Jean. University of Chicago; Estados Unidos
Fil: Manes, Facundo Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina
Fil: Ibañez, Agustin Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva; Argentina. Universidad Diego Portales; Chile
description Deficits in social cognition are an evident clinical feature of the Asperger syndrome (AS). Although many daily life problems of adults with AS are related to social cognition impairments, few studies have conducted comprehensive research in this area. The current study examined multiple domains of social cognition in adults with AS assessing the executive functions (EF) and exploring the intra and inter-individual variability. Fifteen adult´s diagnosed with AS and 15 matched healthy controls completed a battery of social cognition tasks. This battery included measures of emotion recognition, theory of mind (ToM), empathy, moral judgment, social norms knowledge, and self-monitoring behavior in social settings. We controlled for the effect of EF and explored the individual variability. The results indicated that adults with AS had a fundamental deficit in several domains of social cognition. We also found high variability in the social cognition tasks. In these tasks, AS participants obtained mostly subnormal performance. EF did not seem to play a major role in the social cognition impairments. Our results suggest that adults with AS present a pattern of social cognition deficits characterized by the decreased ability to implicitly encode and integrate contextual information in order to access to the social meaning. Nevertheless, when social information is explicitly presented or the situation can be navigated with abstract rules, performance is improved. Our findings have implications for the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with AS as well as for the neurocognitive models of this syndrome.
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