2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Autistic children's understanding of mental and emotional states in conversation: The role of prosody
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20330136
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Gakugei University (2010-2013)
Kyoto University (2008-2009) |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUI Tomoko 東京学芸大学, 国際教育センター, 教授 (20296792)
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| 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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008-04-08 – 2014-03-31
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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Research Products
(25 results)
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[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
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Pages: 797-802
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[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
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Journal Title
Development and Psychopathology
Volume: 22
Pages: 353-360
DOI
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[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
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