2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Using therapeutic robots for evaluating mentalizing capabilities in Autism
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21330154
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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 | Miyagi University |
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Principal Investigator |
KOZIMA Hideki 宮城大学, 事業構想学部, 教授 (70358894)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 発達障害 / 療育ロボット / 認知スタイル |
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| Research Abstract |
Individuals with autism generally show better performance on operating physical objects than in communicating with people; however, we lack a plausible model of autism that explains why their physical and social capabilities develop in separate and unbalanced ways. This research project investigates this question from the viewpoint of "Mentalizing Filter", which derives social information (states of mind) from the appearance and/or behavior of others, through a series of longitudinal observations of autistic children interacting with communication robots. The observations, with the help of psychological experiments using an eye-tracker, we found "Cognitive Granularity" (the unit size of cognitive operations) plays an important role in mentalizing others' appearance and behavior.
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Research Products
(33 results)
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[Journal Article] Different impressions of other agents obtained through social interaction uniquely modulate dorsal and ventral pathway activities in the social human brain2014
Author(s)
Hideyuki Takahashi, Kazunori Terada, Tomoyo Morita, Shinsuke Suzuki, Tomoki Haji, Hideki Kozima, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Yoshio Matsumoto, Takashi Omori, Minoru Asada, Eiichi Naito
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