2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The exploration of behavioral and neural measurements for autism therapy using robot
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23700321
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Osaka University (2013)
Tamagawa University (2011-2012) |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 自閉症 / ロボット / 対人応答性 |
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| Research Abstract |
Mentalizing is the ability to attribute mental states to other agents. The lack of mentalizing, which is required in actual social contexts, may cause serious social disorders such as autism. However, the mechanism of online mentalizing is still unclear. In this study, we explored various behavioral and neural measurements indicating online mentalizing ability. We found that behavioral entropy (which indicates the randomness of decision making) was an efficient behavioral index for online mentalizing in a human-human competitive game. Participants played the game with a humanoid robot; the results indicated that the entropy was significantly higher in participants whose gaze followed the robot's head turn than not, although the explicit human-likeness of the robot did not correlate with behavioral entropy. We also found the neural correlates behind the online mentalizing ability.
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Research Products
(17 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)
Takahashi, H., Terada, K., Morita, T., Suzuki, S., Haji, T., Kozima, H., Yoshikawa, M., Matsumoto, Y., Omori, T., Asada, M., Naito, E.
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