| Budget Amount *help |
¥39,650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥30,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,150,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥7,670,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,770,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥10,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥8,450,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,950,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥13,130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,030,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study explores the helping behaviors of autistic individuals and autistic-like common marmosets, as marmosets are a rare species that help non-kin conspecifics. An initial study revealed that marmosets do not respond when other marmosets could receive food while they did not. This behavior is considered as exemplifying inequity aversion, which is the preference for fairness and resistance to inequalities. We investigate inequity aversion in marmosets who were prenatally exposed to valproic acid (VPA) in the womb and unexposed marmosets. We found that the latter show inequity aversion while the former do not. As prenatal exposure to VPA is a well-known procedure in inducing ASD-like behaviors in rodents, the lack of inequity aversion in the VPA marmosets could be attributed to weak social motivations or interest towards others.
Social skill training, including helping behaviors, lead to desirable behaviors by elementary school children, including high risk children with autism
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