Social analogical reasoning in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing peers.

ABSTRACT: Analogical reasoning is an important mechanism for social cognition in typically developing children, and recent evidence suggests that some forms of analogical reasoning may be preserved in autism spectrum disorder. An unanswered question is whether children with autism spectrum disorder can apply analogical reasoning to social information. In all, 92 children with autism spectrum disorder completed a social content analogical reasoning task presented via photographs of real-world social interactions. Autism spectrum disorder participants exhibited performance that was well above chance and was not significantly worse than age- and intelligence quotient-matched typically developing children. Investigating the relationship of social content analogical reasoning performance to age in this c

SUBMITTER: Green AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6085745 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature