Strategic decision making and prediction differences in autism.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several theories in autism posit that common aspects of the autism phenotype may be manifestations of an underlying differentiation in predictive abilities. The present study investigates this hypothesis in the context of strategic decision making in autistic participants compared to a control group.

Method

Autistic individuals (43 adults, 35 male) and a comparison group (42 adults, 35 male) of age and gender matched individuals, played a modified version of the prisoner's dilemma (PD) task where they were asked, if capable, to predict their opponents' move. The predictive performance of the two groups was assessed.

Results

Overall, participants in the autism group had a significantly lower number of correct predictions. Moreover, autistic participants stat

SUBMITTER: Mantas V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9035278 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature