Decision-Making in a Changing World: A Study in Autism Spectrum Disorders

To learn to deal with the unexpected is essential to adaptation to a social, therefore often unpredictable environment. Fourteen adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and 15 controls underwent a decision-making task aimed at investigating the influence of either a social or a non-social enviro...

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Published inJournal of autism and developmental disorders Vol. 45; no. 6; pp. 1603 - 1613
Main Authors Robic, S., Sonié, S., Fonlupt, P., Henaff, M.-A., Touil, N., Coricelli, G., Mattout, J., Schmitz, C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.06.2015
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Springer Verlag
Subjects
Adult
Adults
Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorder - psychology
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Bayesian Statistics
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Case-Control Studies
Child and School Psychology
Cognitive Processes
Communication Problems
Comparative Analysis
Context Effect
Cues
Decision Making
Environmental Influences
Female
Health aspects
Humans
Intelligence Quotient
Interaction
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relationship
Life Sciences
Male
Neurons and Cognition
Neurosciences
Original Paper
Pediatrics
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Probability
Psychological aspects
Psychology
Public Health
Social aspects
Social Behavior
Social Environment
Social Influences
Social Life
Uncertainty
Young Adult
Autism spectrum disorders
Social
Decision-making
Instability
Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Summary:To learn to deal with the unexpected is essential to adaptation to a social, therefore often unpredictable environment. Fourteen adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and 15 controls underwent a decision-making task aimed at investigating the influence of either a social or a non-social environment, and its interaction with either a stable (with constant probabilities) or an unstable (with changing probabilities) context on their performance. Participants with ASD presented with difficulties in accessing underlying statistical rules in an unstable context, a deficit especially enhanced in the social environment. These results point out that the difficulties people with ASD encounter in their social life might be caused by impaired social cues processing and by the unpredictability associated with the social world.
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ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-014-2311-7