Gesture Comprehension in High-Functioning Autism

高功能自闭症患者的手势理解

• 批准号: 6792264
• 负责人: LAURA BETH SILVERMAN
• 金额: $ 2.62万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-19 至 2006-02-18
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6792264
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); autism; clinical research; communication behavior; communication disorders; comprehension; functional ability; human subject; neural information processing; paralinguistic behavior; social behavior disorders; speech recognition; visual fixation

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed study is designed to provide a comprehensive characterization of gesture comprehension in high functioning autism, through quantitative analyses of performance on gesture recognition tasks, and eye-fixations during gesture and speech processing. The design of the study will test hypotheses which target underlying features of the communicative situation that may enhance or impede gesture comprehension abilities in autism (i.e., integration of gestures with speech, degree of symbolic representation in gesture). This will be accomplished by comparing gesture comprehension performance across tasks with three distinct classes of representational gestures (i.e., iconic gestures, pantomime, emblems). Hypotheses concerning the relationship between gesture comprehension abilities and social outcomes will also be examined. The findings of this study will have important implications for the broader understanding of communication and social impairments in autism and also for treatment and interventions focused on improving social competence and communication in autism.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究旨在通过定量分析手势识别任务的表现以及手势和语音处理期间的眼睛注视，提供高功能自闭症手势理解的全面表征。该研究的设计将测试假设，这些假设针对可能增强或阻碍自闭症手势理解能力的交际情境的潜在特征（即，手势与语音的整合、手势中的符号表示的程度）。这将通过将任务中的手势理解表现与三种不同类别的代表性手势（即，标志性手势、哑剧、表情符号）。此外，本研究亦将探讨手势理解能力与社会结果之间的关系。这项研究的结果将对更广泛地理解自闭症的沟通和社会障碍以及专注于改善自闭症的社会能力和沟通的治疗和干预措施产生重要影响。