Robic S, Sonié S, Fonlupt P, Henaff M-A, Touil N, Coricelli G, Mattout J, Schmitz C
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Brain Dynamics and Cognition Team, INSERM, U1028, CNRS, UMR 5292, Lyon, France.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2015 Jun;45(6):1603-13. doi: 10.1007/s10803-014-2311-7.
To learn to deal with the unexpected is essential to adaptation to a social, therefore often unpredictable environment. Fourteen adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and 15 controls underwent a decision-making task aimed at investigating the influence of either a social or a non-social environment, and its interaction with either a stable (with constant probabilities) or an unstable (with changing probabilities) context on their performance. Participants with ASD presented with difficulties in accessing underlying statistical rules in an unstable context, a deficit especially enhanced in the social environment. These results point out that the difficulties people with ASD encounter in their social life might be caused by impaired social cues processing and by the unpredictability associated with the social world.
学会应对意外情况对于适应社会环境至关重要，因为社会环境往往不可预测。14名患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的成年人和15名对照组人员参与了一项决策任务，旨在研究社会或非社会环境的影响，以及这种环境与稳定（概率恒定）或不稳定（概率变化）情境对他们表现的相互作用。患有ASD的参与者在不稳定情境中获取潜在统计规则时存在困难，这种缺陷在社会环境中尤为明显。这些结果表明，ASD患者在社交生活中遇到的困难可能是由于社交线索处理受损以及与社会世界相关的不可预测性所致。
