Gesture Comprehension in High-Functioning Autism

高功能自闭症患者的手势理解

• 批准号: 6862703
• 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/6862703
• 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(申请人提供)：这项拟议的研究旨在通过对手势识别任务的表现以及手势和语音处理过程中的眼睛注视的量化分析，提供高功能自闭症患者手势理解的综合特征。这项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流情境的潜在特征(即，手势与言语的整合，手势中的符号表征程度)。这将通过比较不同任务和三种不同的表征手势(即，标志性手势、哑剧、象征)的手势理解性能来实现。关于手势理解能力和社会结果之间关系的假设也将被检验。这项研究的结果将对更广泛地了解自闭症中的沟通和社会障碍，以及侧重于改善自闭症的社交能力和沟通的治疗和干预具有重要意义。