24 Apr
2014
24 Apr
'14
10 a.m.
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Antonia Hamilton
UCL
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34.,
Room G15
Visual perspective taking in children with autism spectrum condition
Antonia Hamilton, Amy Pearson, Dani Ropar
The ability to consider what another person can see (visual perspective
taking, VPT) depends on more basic social and spatial abilities and may
contribute to social skills such as theory of mind. We have recently
shown that children with autism find VPT difficult. Here, we follow up
on these results and test if different children use different strategies
to solve a VPT task. 30 children with autism and 30 IQ matched typical
children completed tasks assessing visual perspective taking, mental
rotation, theory of mind and matching of body postures. Replicating
previous results, we found an interaction between diagnostic group and
performance on the VPT / mental rotation tasks. Furthermore, we found
that typical children’s performance on the VPT task was predicted by
their ability to match body postures. In contrast, autistic children’s
VPT performance was predicted by their ability to mentally rotate
objects. This suggests that typical and autistic children draw on
different cognitive mechanisms to solve perspective taking tasks.
The results of these studies give new insights into the basic spatial
and social mechanisms underlying perspective taking, and emphasis the
role of body representations in social cognition.
We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u. 30-34) !
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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