Abstract

Building Blocks of Others' Understanding: A Perspective Shift in Investigating Social-Communicative Deficit in Autism.

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  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental lifelong condition affecting over 1% of the population and characterized by significant impairments in social communication and interaction, as well as by the presence of restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests and activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2013)

  • Among other explanations (Lai et al, 2014), the impaired “social brain” hypothesis and the theory of mind (ToM) deficit have been considered for decades among the most reasonable explanations for social interactions difficulties in ASD (Baron-Cohen et al, 1985; Pelphrey et al, 2004; Blakemore, 2010; Burnett et al, 2011; Gotts et al, 2012; Vissers et al, 2012); both the presence of heterogeneous experimental protocols (Boucher, 2012) and controversial neuroimaging findings (Mitchell, 2008; Schurz et al, 2014) suggests a methodological and conceptual shift (Schaafsma et al, 2015)

  • This shift is based on the idea that core social-communicative deficits of ASD may be more efficiently tackled starting from the comprehension of anomalies in basic functions of different sensory and cognitive domains: visual/auditory perception, multisensory integration and attention

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental lifelong condition affecting over 1% of the population and characterized by significant impairments in social communication and interaction, as well as by the presence of restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests and activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). This shift is based on the idea that core social-communicative deficits of ASD may be more efficiently tackled starting from the comprehension of anomalies in basic functions of different sensory and cognitive domains: visual/auditory perception, multisensory integration and attention (for a similar approach in the motor domain, see Casartelli et al, 2016).

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