| Title | Social-Pragmatic Inferencing, Visual Social Attention and Physiological Reactivity to Complex Social Scenes in Autistic Young Adults. | ||
| Author | Dindar, Katja; Loukusa, Soile; Helminen, Terhi M; Makinen, Leena; Siipo, Antti; Laukka, Seppo; Rantanen, Antti; Mattila, Marja-Leena; Hurtig, Tuula; Ebeling, Hanna | ||
| Journal | J Autism Dev Disord | Publication Year/Month | 2022-Jan |
| PMID | 33638804 | PMCID | PMC8732855 |
| Affiliation + expend | 1.Research Unit of Logopedics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, PO Box 1000, 90014, Oulu, Finland. katja.dindar@oulu.fi. | ||
This study examined social-pragmatic inferencing, visual social attention and physiological reactivity to complex social scenes. Participants were autistic young adults (n = 14) and a control group of young adults (n = 14) without intellectual disability. Results indicate between-group differences in social-pragmatic inferencing, moment-level social attention and heart rate variability (HRV) reactivity. A key finding suggests associations between increased moment-level social attention to facial emotion expressions, better social-pragmatic inferencing and greater HRV suppression in autistic young adults. Supporting previous research, better social-pragmatic inferencing was found associated with less autistic traits.