A matter of words: Impact of verbal and nonverbal information on impression formation in high-functioning autism |
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| Authors: | Bojana Kuzmanovic Leonhard Schilbach Fritz-Georg Lehnhardt Gary Bente Kai Vogeley |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan;2. Department of Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan;3. Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan;4. Department of Cell Pharmacology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan;5. Department of Radiology, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan;6. Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan;1. Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA;2. Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA;1. University of Western Ontario, Department of Psychology, London, Ontario, Canada;2. Pennsylvania State University, Department of Kinesiology, State College, PA, United States;3. Wilfrid Laurier University, Departments of Kinesiology/Physical Education and Psychology, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;4. McMaster University, Department of Kinesiology, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
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Clinical intuition and resent research (Senju et al., 2009) suggests that adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) are able to use explicit verbal information but fail to react upon subtle nonverbal cues in order to understand others and navigate social encounters.In order to investigate the relative influence of different domains of socially relevant information in HFA as compared to matched controls, we used verbal and nonverbal stimuli as a basis for an interpersonal impression formation task. Results demonstrated a reduced sensitivity to nonverbal cues in individuals with HFA when consideration of conflicting information from the different domains was required, although HFA participants could well evaluate nonverbal stimuli in isolation. Thus, in a more complex experimental setting nonverbal information had a comparably weak impact on the impression formation confirming that social processing is preferentially based on verbal information in HFA. |
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