{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["29(3)"],"submitter":["Abbot-Smith K"],"funding":["School of Psychology Seed Fund, University of Kent","Kent Health","University of Kent PhD Scholarship to Louise Malkin"],"pubmed_abstract":["Keeping a conversation going is the social glue of friendships. The <i>DSM</i> criteria for autism list difficulties with back-and-forth conversation but does not necessitate that all autistic children will be equally impacted. We carried out three studies (two pre-registered) with verbally fluent school children (age 5-9 years) to investigate how autistic and neurotypical children maintain a conversation topic. We also investigated within-group relationships between conversational ability and cognitive and sociocognitive predictors. Study 1 found autistic children were more likely than neurotypical controls to give off-topic and generic minimal responses (e.g. 'mm', 'oh') and were less likely to give non-verbal responses (e.g. nodding or use of facial affect to respond). Nonetheless, the "],"journal":["Autism : the international journal of research and practice"],"pagination":["684-697"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11894863"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Conversational topic maintenance and related cognitive abilities in autistic versus neurotypical children."],"pmcid":["PMC11894863"],"pubmed_authors":["Bannard C","Abbot-Smith K","Malkin L","Hobson W","Nice J","Williams D","Matthews D"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Conversational topic maintenance and related cognitive abilities in autistic versus neurotypical children.","description":"Keeping a conversation going is the social glue of friendships. The <i>DSM</i> criteria for autism list difficulties with back-and-forth conversation but does not necessitate that all autistic children will be equally impacted. We carried out three studies (two pre-registered) with verbally fluent school children (age 5-9 years) to investigate how autistic and neurotypical children maintain a conversation topic. We also investigated within-group relationships between conversational ability and cognitive and sociocognitive predictors. Study 1 found autistic children were more likely than neurotypical controls to give off-topic and generic minimal responses (e.g. 'mm', 'oh') and were less likely to give non-verbal responses (e.g. nodding or use of facial affect to respond). Nonetheless, the ","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Mar","modification":"2025-04-04T01:13:08.552Z","creation":"2025-04-04T01:13:08.552Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11894863","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39431626"],"doi":["10.1177/13623613241286610"]}}