Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults
This video-based study examines the pragmatic non-verbal comprehension skills and corresponding neural-level findings in young Finnish autistic adults, and controls. Items from the Assessment Battery of Communication (ABaCo) were chosen to evaluate the comprehension of non-verbal communication. Inte...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/75920 2024-05-19T07:39:01+00:00 Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults Kotila, Aija Tohka, Jussi Kauppi, Jukka-Pekka Gabbatore, Ilaria Mäkinen, Leena Hurtig, Tuula M. Ebeling, Hanna E. Korhonen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Vesa J. Loukusa, Soile 2021 application/pdf fulltext http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202105243179 eng eng Taylor & Francis International Journal of Circumpolar Health 1239-9736 1 80 10.1080/22423982.2021.1909333 Kotila, A., Tohka, J., Kauppi, J.-P., Gabbatore, I., Mäkinen, L., Hurtig, T. M., Ebeling, H. E., Korhonen, V., Kiviniemi, V. J., & Loukusa, S. (2021). Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults. International Journal of Circumpolar Health , 80 (1), Article 1909333. https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1909333 CONVID_89678483 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202105243179 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202105243179 CC BY 4.0 © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ autism spectrum autistic adults pragmatics non-verbal video fMRI autismikirjon häiriöt toiminnallinen magneettikuvaus sanaton viestintä pragmatiikka autismi article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 publishedVersion A1 2021 ftjyvaeskylaenun 2024-04-23T23:38:28Z This video-based study examines the pragmatic non-verbal comprehension skills and corresponding neural-level findings in young Finnish autistic adults, and controls. Items from the Assessment Battery of Communication (ABaCo) were chosen to evaluate the comprehension of non-verbal communication. Inter-subject correlation (ISC) analysis of the functional magnetic resonance imaging data was used to reveal the synchrony of brain activation across participants during the viewing of pragmatically complex scenes of ABaCo videos. The results showed a significant difference between the ISC maps of the autistic and control groups in tasks involving the comprehension of non-verbal communication, thereby revealing several brain regions where correlation of brain activity was greater within the control group. The results suggest a possible weaker modulation of brain states in response to the pragmatic non-verbal communicative situations in autistic participants. Although there was no difference between the groups in behavioural responses to ABaCo items, there was more variability in the accuracy of the responses in the autistic group. Furthermore, mean answering and reaction times correlated with the severity of autistic traits. The results indicate that even if young autistic adults may have learned to use compensatory resources in their communicative-pragmatic comprehension, pragmatic processing in naturalistic situations still requires additional effort. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Circumpolar Health International Journal of Circumpolar Health JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive |
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This video-based study examines the pragmatic non-verbal comprehension skills and corresponding neural-level findings in young Finnish autistic adults, and controls. Items from the Assessment Battery of Communication (ABaCo) were chosen to evaluate the comprehension of non-verbal communication. Inter-subject correlation (ISC) analysis of the functional magnetic resonance imaging data was used to reveal the synchrony of brain activation across participants during the viewing of pragmatically complex scenes of ABaCo videos. The results showed a significant difference between the ISC maps of the autistic and control groups in tasks involving the comprehension of non-verbal communication, thereby revealing several brain regions where correlation of brain activity was greater within the control group. The results suggest a possible weaker modulation of brain states in response to the pragmatic non-verbal communicative situations in autistic participants. Although there was no difference between the groups in behavioural responses to ABaCo items, there was more variability in the accuracy of the responses in the autistic group. Furthermore, mean answering and reaction times correlated with the severity of autistic traits. The results indicate that even if young autistic adults may have learned to use compensatory resources in their communicative-pragmatic comprehension, pragmatic processing in naturalistic situations still requires additional effort. peerReviewed |
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Kotila, Aija Tohka, Jussi Kauppi, Jukka-Pekka Gabbatore, Ilaria Mäkinen, Leena Hurtig, Tuula M. Ebeling, Hanna E. Korhonen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Vesa J. Loukusa, Soile |
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Kotila, Aija Tohka, Jussi Kauppi, Jukka-Pekka Gabbatore, Ilaria Mäkinen, Leena Hurtig, Tuula M. Ebeling, Hanna E. Korhonen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Vesa J. Loukusa, Soile |
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Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults |
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Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults |
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Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults |
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Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults |
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Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults |
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neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young finnish autistic adults |
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International Journal of Circumpolar Health 1239-9736 1 80 10.1080/22423982.2021.1909333 Kotila, A., Tohka, J., Kauppi, J.-P., Gabbatore, I., Mäkinen, L., Hurtig, T. M., Ebeling, H. E., Korhonen, V., Kiviniemi, V. J., & Loukusa, S. (2021). Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults. International Journal of Circumpolar Health , 80 (1), Article 1909333. https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2021.1909333 CONVID_89678483 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202105243179 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202105243179 |
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