Natural language markers of social phenotype in girls with autism.
Natural language markers of social phenotype in girls with autism.
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10.1111/jcpp.13348
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发表时间：
2021-08
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Parish-Morris, Julia
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作者：
Song, Amber;Cola, Meredith;Plate, Samantha;Petrulla, Victoria;Yankowitz, Lisa;Pandey, Juhi;Schultz, Robert T.;Parish-Morris, Julia
与男孩相比，患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASC）的女孩长期诊断不足，这可能是由于对各种领域的性别差异知之甚少，包括社会兴趣和动机。在这项研究中，我们使用自然语言处理来识别社会表型的客观标记，这些标记很容易从与非专家的简短对话中获得。87名患有ASC（17名女孩，33名男孩）或典型发育（TD; 15名女孩，22名男孩）的学龄儿童和青少年在年龄（平均值= 11.35岁），智商估计值（平均值=107）和ASC参与者的社会障碍水平上匹配。参与者与非专业的谈话伙伴进行非正式的5分钟“了解你”的谈话。为了衡量对社会群体的关注，我们分析了第一人称复数代词变体（例如，“我们”和“我们”）和第三人称复数代词变体（例如，“他们”和“他们”）。与先前的研究表明自闭症女孩有更大的社会动机相一致，自闭症女孩比ASC男孩更多地谈论社会群体。与TD女孩相比，自闭症女孩表现出对他们不属于的群体（“他们”，“他们”）的讨论程度明显提高，表明潜在的社会排斥意识。代词使用预测自闭症女孩社会表型的个体差异。相对高度，但非典型的社会群体的重点是明显的自闭症女孩在自发的谈话，这与自闭症男孩和TD女孩观察到的模式。量化语言流利的自闭症女孩的微妙语言差异是改善自闭症谱系中这一未充分研究的领域的识别和支持的重要一步。
Girls with autism spectrum condition (ASC) are chronically under-diagnosed compared to boys, which may be due to poorly understood sex differences in a variety of domains, including social interest and motivation. In this study, we use natural language processing to identify objective markers of social phenotype that are easily obtained from a brief conversation with a non-expert. 87 school-aged children and adolescents with ASC (17 girls, 33 boys) or typical development (TD; 15 girls, 22 boys) were matched on age (Mean=11.35y), IQ estimates (Mean=107), and – for ASC participants – level of social impairment. Participants engaged in an informal 5-minute “get to know you” conversation with a non-expert conversation partner. To measure attention to social groups, we analyzed first-person plural pronoun variants (e.g., “we” and “us”) and third-person plural pronoun variants (e.g., “they” and “them”). Consistent with prior research suggesting greater social motivation in autistic girls, autistic girls talked more about social groups than did ASC boys. Compared to TD girls, autistic girls demonstrated atypically heightened discussion of groups they were not a part of (“they”, “them”), indicating potential awareness of social exclusion. Pronoun use predicted individual differences in the social phenotypes of autistic girls. Relatively heightened but atypical social group focus is evident in autistic girls during spontaneous conversation, which contrasts with patterns observed in autistic boys and TD girls. Quantifying subtle linguistic differences in verbally fluent autistic girls is an important step toward improved identification and support for this understudied sector of the autism spectrum.
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