How do autistic people recognize wholeness? From cognitive experiment to a nursing model.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25730167
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Kansei informatics
• Research Institution: Osaka University (2014); Niigata University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: NISHIYAMA Yuta 大阪大学, 学内共同利用施設等, 助教 (90649724)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HASEGAWA Isao 新潟大学, 医学部, 教授 (60282620) ; KAWASAKI Keisuke 新潟大学, 医学部, 助教 (60511178) ; NAGASAWA Masaki 新潟大学, 教育学部, 教授 (30293187)
• Research Collaborator: KATO Kimiko 新潟大学, 医学部
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 全体性認識 / 意味形成 / 認知発達

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research focused on a human ability to comprehend wholeness of some event. To examine how people develop a semantic formation and modulation, we conducted two experiments. Typical development people (6, 7, 9, 11 year-old children and adults) participated in this study. It was demonstrated that a cognitive mode changed with age. Younger people tend to grasp wholeness of events with collecting individual events. On the other hand, older people tend to grasp them with interpreting a few individual events inductively. They suggest that atypical development people might thoroughly adopt the former cognitive mode. To verify it in detail, future works would require some non-linguistic experiments.

Free Research Field

理論生命科学