Attenuated impression of irony created by the mismatch of verbal and nonverbal cues in patients with autism spectrum disorder.

ABSTRACT: Perception of irony has been observed to be impaired in adults with autism spectrum disorder. In typically developed adults, the mismatch of verbal and nonverbal emotional cues can be perceived as an expression of irony even in the absence of any further contextual information. In this study, we evaluate to what extent high functioning autists perceive this incongruence as expressing irony. Our results show that incongruent verbal and nonverbal signals create an impression of irony significantly less often in participants with high-functioning autism than in typically developed control subjects. The extent of overall autistic symptomatology as measured with the autism-spectrum questionnaire (AQ), however, does not correlate with the reduced tendency to attribute incongruent stimuli as expr

SUBMITTER: Nuber S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6188779 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature