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@ARTICLE{Kuschefski:859594,
author = {Kuschefski, Marius and Falter-Wagner, Christine M. and
Bente, Gary and Vogeley, Kai and Georgescu, Alexandra Livia},
title = {{I}nferring power and dominance from dyadic nonverbal
interactions in autism spectrum disorder},
journal = {Autism research},
volume = {12},
number = {3},
issn = {1939-3792},
address = {Chichester},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-00443},
pages = {505-516},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Research studies to date have revealed conflicting results
with respect to the processing of nonverbal cues from social
interactions in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Therefore,
the aim of the present study was to investigate the
contribution of two important factors for the perception of
dyadic social interactions, namely (a) the movement
contingency and (b) the spatial context. To this end, 26
adult participants with ASD and 26 age‐, sex‐, and
IQ‐matched typically developed control participants
observed animations presenting nonverbal interactions
between two human virtual characters enacting power
relationships. We manipulated (a) movement contingency by
exchanging one of the two original agents with an agent from
another dyad and (b) spatial context by changing agents'
spatial orientation to a back‐to‐back position.
Participants were asked to rate dominance and submissiveness
of these agents. Results showed that the movement
contingency manipulation affected accuracy and consistency
of power perception and that the spatial context
manipulation slowed down reaction times comparably in both
groups. With regard to group differences, individuals with
ASD were found to judge power relationships slower compared
to control participants, potentially suggesting a more
explicit processing style in ASD. Furthermore, the spatial
context manipulation slowed down the reaction times more in
the contingent compared to the non‐contingent conditions
only in the ASD group. These findings contribute to the
ongoing debate whether individuals with ASD have
difficulties in understanding nonverbal cues in a dyadic
context by suggesting that they do so in more subtle ways
than previously investigated},
cin = {INM-3},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406},
pnm = {572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF3-572)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-572},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:30629333},
UT = {WOS:000461586600012},
doi = {10.1002/aur.2069},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/859594},
}