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（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究旨在通过定量对手势识别任务的绩效分析以及在手势和语音处理过程中对高功能自闭症的手势理解的全面表征。该研究的设计将测试针对交流状况的基本特征的假设，这些假设可能会增强或阻碍自闭症中的手势理解能力（即，手势与语音，手势中的符号表示程度的整合）。这将通过比较跨任务的手势理解性能和三种不同类别的表示性手势（即标志性的手势，哑剧，标志）来实现。还将检查有关手势理解能力与社会成果之间关系的假设。这项研究的发现将对自闭症中的沟通和社会障碍以及针对改善自闭症的社会能力和沟通的治疗和干预措施的更广泛理解具有重要意义。