2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Experimental psychological study on facial information processing in autistic children
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24330207
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
AKECHI Hironori 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 学術研究員 (50723368)
KIKUCHI Yukiko 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 助教 (90600700)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 自閉症 / 顔認知 / 実験心理学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of the study was to empirically capture social difficulties observed in autistic individuals and provide empirical data that can lead to better interventions for autism. As a result, while typically developing individuals are prone to be aware of faces making eye contact and face-related scalp-recorded event-related potentials are enhanced when attending to face-likeness of non-face target objects, those effects were not found in autistic individuals. However, in live and realistic situations, autistic children also follow other person’s gaze direction and imitation behaviours are facilitated by an establishment of eye contact.
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| Free Research Field |
進化心理学
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