Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA.
Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, 27510, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2017 Oct;47(10):2992-3006. doi: 10.1007/s10803-017-3220-3.
This study investigated vicarious effort-based decision-making in 50 adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) compared to 32 controls using the Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task. Participants made choices to win money for themselves or for another person. When choosing for themselves, the ASD group exhibited relatively similar patterns of effort-based decision-making across reward parameters. However, when choosing for another person, the ASD group demonstrated relatively decreased sensitivity to reward magnitude, particularly in the high magnitude condition. Finally, patterns of responding in the ASD group were related to individual differences in consummatory pleasure capacity. These findings indicate atypical vicarious effort-based decision-making in ASD and more broadly add to the growing body of literature addressing social reward processing deficits in ASD.
本研究使用奖励努力任务(Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task),调查了 50 名自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)青少年和 32 名对照组参与者的替代性基于努力的决策。参与者可以选择为自己或他人赢得金钱。当为自己选择时,ASD 组在奖励参数上表现出相对相似的基于努力的决策模式。然而,当为他人选择时,ASD 组对奖励幅度的敏感性相对降低,尤其是在高幅度条件下。最后,ASD 组的反应模式与消费愉悦能力的个体差异有关。这些发现表明 ASD 中的替代性基于努力的决策异常,更广泛地补充了越来越多的关于 ASD 中社会奖励处理缺陷的文献。