Schütz Magdalena, Boxhoorn Sara, Mühlherr Andreas M, Mössinger Hannah, Freitag Christine M, Luckhardt Christina
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of the Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2023 Apr;53(4):1431-1443. doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-05358-1. Epub 2021 Dec 2.
The ability to infer intentions from observed behavior and predict actions based on this inference, known as intention attribution (IA), has been hypothesized to be impaired in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The underlying neural processes, however, have not been conclusively determined. The aim of this study was to examine the neural signature of IA in children and adolescents with ASD, and to elucidate potential links to contextual updating processes using electroencephalography. Results did not indicate that IA or early contextual updating was impaired in ASD. However, there was evidence of aberrant processing of expectation violations in ASD, particularly if the expectation was based on IA. Results are discussed within the context of impaired predictive coding in ASD.
从观察到的行为中推断意图并基于此推断预测行动的能力，即所谓的意图归因（IA），据推测在自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）个体中会受损。然而，其潜在的神经过程尚未得到最终确定。本研究的目的是检查患有ASD的儿童和青少年中IA的神经特征，并使用脑电图阐明与情境更新过程的潜在联系。结果并未表明ASD患者的IA或早期情境更新受损。然而，有证据表明ASD患者对预期违反的处理存在异常，特别是当预期基于IA时。本文将在ASD中预测编码受损的背景下讨论这些结果。
