Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Montessorilaan 3, 6500 HE, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Behavioural Science Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 Aug;48(8):2692-2700. doi: 10.1007/s10803-018-3529-6.
It is assumed that learning on the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task is related to learning involved in social skill development affected in autism, but this assumption has hardly been investigated. We have therefore examined associations between SRT task learning and social impairment measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale in 72 autistic and non-autistic adults. Results revealed a positive correlation between deterministic sequence learning, putatively involving explicit learning, and social impairment in autistic adults but not in non-autistic adults. No correlations with probabilistic learning were found. These results suggest that the type of learning that helps autistic adults during a deterministic SRT task hinders them during social development, and call for further investigating the ecological validity of the SRT task.
人们假设，在序列反应时间（SRT）任务中的学习与自闭症中受影响的社交技能发展所涉及的学习有关，但这一假设几乎没有得到过调查。因此，我们在 72 名自闭症和非自闭症成年人中，检查了 SRT 任务学习与社会反应量表测量的社会障碍之间的关联。结果表明，在自闭症成年人中，确定性序列学习（可能涉及外显学习）与社会障碍之间存在正相关，而非自闭症成年人中则没有。与概率学习没有相关性。这些结果表明，在确定性 SRT 任务中帮助自闭症成年人学习的类型，在他们的社交发展中反而会对他们造成阻碍，这需要进一步调查 SRT 任务的生态有效性。
