ERIC Number: EJ1327295
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Feb
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3257
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Social Inferences in Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum and Autism: Semantic Analysis and Topic Modeling
Renteria-Vazquez, Tiffany; Brown, Warren S.; Kang, Christine; Graves, Mark; Castelli, Fulvia; Paul, Lynn K.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v52 n2 p569-583 Feb 2022
Impoverished capacity for social inference is one of several symptoms that are common to both agenesis of the corpus callosum (AgCC) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This research compared the ability of 14 adults with AgCC, 13 high-functioning adults with ASD and 14 neurotypical controls to accurately attribute social meaning to the interactions of animated triangles. Descriptions of the animations were analyzed in three ways: subjective ratings, Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and topic modeling (Latent Dirichlet Allocation). Although subjective ratings indicated that all groups made similar inferences from the animations, the index of perplexity (atypicality of topic) generated from topic modeling revealed that inferences from individuals with AgCC or ASD displayed significantly less social imagination than those of controls.
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Cognition, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Adults, Attribution Theory, Geometric Concepts, Animation, Inferences, Imagination
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: R01HD092430

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