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2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Autistic children's understanding of mental and emotional states in conversation: The role of prosody

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 20330136
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Educational psychology
Research InstitutionTokyo Gakugei University (2010-2013)
Kyoto University (2008-2009)

Principal Investigator

MATSUI Tomoko  東京学芸大学, 国際教育センター, 教授 (20296792)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TOJO Yoshikuni  茨城大学, 教育学部, 教授 (00132720)
YAGUCHI Kiyoshi  文教大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (50200481)
NAKAMURA Tagiru  慶應義塾大学, 環境情報学部, 非常勤講師 (80409797)
MIURA Yui  金沢大学, 子どものこころの発達研究センター, 助教 (40612320)
Project Period (FY) 2008-04-08 – 2014-03-31
Keywords自閉症 / プロソディ / 会話スキル / 対人コミュニケーション
Research Abstract

The goal of this study is to investigate how and to what extent high-functioning children with autistic spectrum disorder (HFASD) understand the speaker's mental and emotional states on the bass of prosodic cues. We conducted a series of experiments to examine if and how school-aged HFASD children understand (a) the speaker's intentions and beliefs behind verbal sarcasm and (b) the speaker's feelings and degree of confidence about the content of the utterance. Two main findings were obtained. First, when the utterance includes mental or emotional vocabulary, HFASD children prioritize the semantic information over the prosodic information in the utterance in order to infer the speaker's mental and emotional states. Second, when the difference among a variety of tone of voices is salient enough, however, HFASD children are able to utilize the prosodic information to infer the speaker's mental and emotional states behind the utterance.

  • Research Products

    (25 results)

All 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

All Journal Article (6 results) Presentation (13 results) Book (6 results)

  • [Journal Article] Developing sensitivity to the sources of information: Early use of the Japanese quotative particles tte and to in mother-child conversation2013

    • Author(s)
      Matsui, T, & Yamamoto, T
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Pragmatics

      Volume: 59 Pages: 5-25

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.pragma.2013.06.008

  • [Journal Article] The effect of spatial frequency and face inversion on facial expression processing in children with autism spectrum disorder2013

    • Author(s)
      Kikuchi, Y., Senju, A., Tojo, Y., Osanai, H., & Hasegawa, T
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Psychological Research

      Volume: 55 Pages: 118-130

    • DOI

      10.1111/jpr.12000

  • [Journal Article] The Role of the Amygdala in the Process of Humour Appreciation2012

    • Author(s)
      Nakamura, T., Matsui, T., Utsumi,A., Yamazaki, M., Makita, K., Tanabe, H., & Sadato, N
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

      Pages: 797-802

    • URL

      http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2012/papers/0147/paper0147.pdf

  • [Journal Article] 言語研究とコミュニケーション教育-認知語用論からの提言2011

    • Author(s)
      松井智子
    • Journal Title

      日本語学

      Volume: vol.30-1 Pages: 25-39

  • [Journal Article] Absence of spontaneous action anticipation by false belief attribution in children with autism spectrum disorder2010

    • Author(s)
      Senju, A., Southgate, V., Miura, Y., Matsui, T., Hasegawa, T., Tojo, Y., Osanai, H.,& Csibra, G
    • Journal Title

      Development and Psychopathology

      Volume: 22 Pages: 353-360

    • DOI

      10.1017/S0954579410000106

  • [Journal Article] Understanding of speaker certainty and false-belief reasoning: A comparison of Japanese and German preschoolers2009

    • Author(s)
      Matsui, T., Rakoczy, H., Miura, Y., & Tomasello, M
    • Journal Title

      Developmental Science

      Volume: 12 Pages: 602-613

    • DOI

      10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00812.x

  • [Presentation] 自閉症スペクトラム児における感情プロソディの理解(2)2014

    • Author(s)
      三浦優生、藤野博、松井智子、東條吉邦、長内博雄
    • Organizer
      日本発達心理学会第25回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学百周年時計台記念館
    • Year and Date
      2014-03-21
  • [Presentation] 言葉と声で気持ちを理解する-言語発達と文化差について-シンポジウム「言語行動研究の魅力:心理学にもたらすインパクトについて考える」2013

    • Author(s)
      松井智子
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第77回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      札幌コンベンションセンター
    • Year and Date
      2013-09-19
  • [Presentation] Cross-linguistic difference in children's sensitivity to speaker certainty: evidence from corpus and experimental data2013

    • Author(s)
      Miura, Y., Matsui, T., Rakoczy, T., & Tomasello, M
    • Organizer
      In Paper symposium: Understanding Speaker Knowledge through Verbal Expressions: Cross- Cultural Comparison.Society for Research in Child Development 2013 Biennial Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Washington Convention Center, Seattle,Washington, U.S.A.
    • Year and Date
      2013-04-18
  • [Presentation] 自閉症スペクトラム児における感情プロソディの理解2013

    • Author(s)
      三浦優生、松井智子、藤野博、東條吉邦、長内博雄
    • Organizer
      日本発達心理学会第24回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      明治学院大学白金キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2013-03-17
  • [Presentation] コミュニケーションにおける心の理解の発達 大会委員会企画シンポジウム「こころとコミュニケーションの発達」2013

    • Author(s)
      松井智子
    • Organizer
      日本発達心理学会第24回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      明治学院大学白金キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2013-03-15
  • [Presentation] Autistic children's sensitivity to vocal affect when finding the speaker's face and referent2012

    • Author(s)
      Miura Y., Matsui, T., Fujino, H., Tojo, Y. & Osanai, H
    • Organizer
      The 14th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
    • Place of Presentation
      University College Cork
    • Year and Date
      2012-06-29
  • [Presentation] Developing sensitivity to the sources of knowledge2011

    • Author(s)
      Matsui, T
    • Organizer
      12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Quebec, Montreal
    • Year and Date
      2011-07-23
  • [Presentation] The use of the Japanese hearsay particle TTE in mother-child conversation2011

    • Author(s)
      Matsui, T
    • Organizer
      12^<th> International Pragmatics Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Manchester
    • Year and Date
      2011-07-07
  • [Presentation] Three-year-olds are capable of deceiving others in the pro-social context but not in the manipulative context2011

    • Author(s)
      Matsui, T., & Miura, Y
    • Organizer
      2011 Biennial Meeting, Society for Research in Child Development
    • Place of Presentation
      Montreal Convention Centre
    • Year and Date
      2011-03-31
  • [Presentation] 「心の理解とコミュニケーション」 ワークショップ 言葉と社会:心理学的アプローチの可能性と問題点 話題提供者2010

    • Author(s)
      松井智子
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第74回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪大学.
    • Year and Date
      2010-09-20
  • [Presentation] Cross-linguistic difference in children's sensitivity to speaker certainty expressed in utterances: evidence from corpus and experimental data2010

    • Author(s)
      Miura, Y., & Matsui, T
    • Organizer
      言語科学会第12回年次国際大会
    • Place of Presentation
      電気通信大学
    • Year and Date
      2010-06-27
  • [Presentation] Knowing how certain the speaker is: Cross-linguistic variation in children's developmental awareness of modal words and prosody2010

    • Author(s)
      Miura, Y., & Matsui, T
    • Organizer
      The 4th Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition
    • Place of Presentation
      National Taiwan University
    • Year and Date
      2010-05-02
  • [Presentation] 自閉症スペクトラム児によるプロソディ理解の検証2009

    • Author(s)
      三浦優生、松井智子、東條吉邦、長内博雄
    • Organizer
      第20回日本発達心理学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      日本女子大学
    • Year and Date
      2009-03-24
  • [Book] 子どものうそ 大人の皮肉―ことばのオモテとウラがわかるには2013

    • Author(s)
      松井智子
    • Publisher
      東京:岩波書店
  • [Book] 自閉症という謎に迫る 研究最前線報告2013

    • Author(s)
      三浦優生, ほか
    • Publisher
      小学館
  • [Book] ミスコミュニケーション なぜ生ずるかどう防ぐか2012

    • Author(s)
      松井智子, ほか
    • Publisher
      ナカニシヤ出版
  • [Book] 発話と文のモダリティー2011

    • Author(s)
      松井智子, ほか
    • Publisher
      ひつじ書房
  • [Book] 発達障害の臨床心理学2010

    • Author(s)
      東條吉邦・大六一志・丹野義彦
    • Publisher
      東京大学出版会
  • [Book] Evidentiality: A Window into Language and Cognitive Development, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development2009

    • Author(s)
      Fitneva, T., & Matsui, T., (eds,)
    • Publisher
      San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

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Published: 2015-06-25  

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