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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019

Do Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders Understand Pantomimic Events?

Ines Adornetti, Francesco Ferretti, Alessandra Chiera, Slawomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Valentina Deriu, Andrea Marini, Rita Magni, Laura Casula, Stefano Vicari and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Pantomimic fossils in modern human communication.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  5. Persuasive conversation as a new form of communication inPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ines AdornettiCosmic Laboratory, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.
Francesco FerrettiCosmic Laboratory, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.
Alessandra ChieraCosmic Laboratory, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.
Slawomir WacewiczDepartment of English, Center for Language Evolution Studies CLES, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.
Przemysław ŻywiczyńskiDepartment of English, Center for Language Evolution Studies CLES, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.
Valentina DeriuCosmic Laboratory, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.
Andrea MariniDepartment of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
Rita MagniChild and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Laura CasulaChild and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Stefano VicariChild and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Giovanni ValeriChild and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital · ITRoma Tre University · ITNicolaus Copernicus University · PLIRCCS Eugenio Medea · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Impairments of motor representation of actions have been reported as a core component of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Individuals with ASD have difficulties in a number of functions such as assuming anticipatory postures, imitating body movements, producing and understanding gestures, and recognizing motor intentions. Such cognitive-motor abilities are all involved in pantomime. However, the available evidence on the production and comprehension of pantomime in individuals with ASD is still inconclusive. The current investigation assessed pantomime comprehension in 40 children with high-functioning ASD and 40 children with typical development balanced for age, IQ, level of formal education, and cognitive profile. The participants were asked to watch video recordings of pantomimes representing simple transitive events enacted by actors and match them to the corresponding pictorial representations. Such pantomimes were delivered in two conditions with different levels of information content (i.e., lean or rich). The two groups of children performed similarly on these tasks. Nonetheless, children with ASD who were administered the pantomimes in the lean condition performed worse than participants who were administered the informatively richer pantomimes. The methodological implications for interpretation of previous findings and future studies are discussed.

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autismcomprehension of actionsgesturemirror neuronsmotor representationpantomime

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