Impaired social concept processing in persons with autistic-like traits.

ABSTRACT: Situated models suggest that social concepts are grounded in interpersonal experience. However, few studies have tested this notion experimentally, and none has targeted individuals with reduced social interaction. Here, we assessed comprehension of text-level social and non-social concepts in persons with and without autistic-like traits. Participants read a social and a non-social text and answered questionnaires targeting social and non-social concepts, respectively. We compared behavioral outcomes, gauged their contribution to subject-level classification, and examined their association with validated measures of autism. Persons with autistic-like traits showed selective deficits in grasping text-level social concepts, even adjusting for intelligence, memory, and vocabulary. Also, soci

SUBMITTER: Birba A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10514259 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature