Episodic future thinking and narrative discourse generation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Marini, Andrea; Ferretti, Francesco; Chiera, Alessandra; Magni, Rita; Adornetti, Ines; Nicchiarelli, Serena; Vicari, Stefano; Valeri, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2018.07.003

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“…On the contrary, no group-related differences were found in the production of errors of global coherence. The latter was quite expected as difficulties of global coherence likely reflect planning and monitoring difficulties that are usually observed in patients with different disorders such as Williams Syndrome ( Marini et al, 2010 ) or Autism Spectrum Disorders ( Ferretti et al, 2018 ; Marini et al, 2019 ). These findings further support the possibility that the two languages were similarly processed also at the macrolinguistic level in both groups.…”

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Linguistic Skills in Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorders: A Pilot Study

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The current pilot study compared the linguistic characteristics of a cohort of simultaneous bilingual children (Italian, L1; German L2) with developmental language disorders (DLDs) and those of bilingual peers with typical language development (TLD). Importantly, the two groups were balanced for a number of environmental variables (e.g., age of first exposure to the L2, acquisition contexts, degree of exposure to both languages) known to affect linguistic development in both TLD and DLDs. The analyses included the assessment of the participants’ phonological short-term memory. Their lexical, grammatical and narrative abilities were analyzed in both languages by administering the Italian and German equivalent forms of the Battery for the assessment of language in children aged 4 to 12 – BVL_4-12 (Marini et al., 2015). The children with DLDs had reduced phonological short-term memory and lexical skills that, in turn, contributed to the reduced levels of local coherence and informativeness of their narratives. Such difficulties were found at similar levels in their two languages. These results suggest that reduced phonological short-term memory and lexical selection skills may reflect a core symptom in both mono- and bilingual children with developmental language disorders.

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Linguistic Skills in Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorders: A Pilot Study

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“…As to this regard, a recent investigation by Malkin et al (2018) showed that, even if they can take to some extent the interlocutor-specific prior experience into account, children with ASD may lag behind typical peers in the degree to which they make use of such information. Difficulties have been reported in the ability to establish causal connections between the utterances (e.g., Diehl et al, 2006;Baixauli et al, 2016;Volden et al, 2017) and organize the temporal dynamics of narrative discourse (Ferretti et al, 2018;Marini et al, 2019) to the extent that they are often not able to adequately use story-grammar information to organize their narrative speech samples (Goldman, 2008;McCabe et al, 2013).…”

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Toward a Definition of the Linguistic Profile of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

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The current investigation assessed linguistic and narrative abilities in a cohort of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The linguistic assessment was performed with both traditional tests and a multilevel procedure for discourse analysis. The results showed difficulties at different stages of message planning, organization, and microlinguistic processing (i.e., lexical selection and grammatical processing). Their macrolinguistic impairments were likely related to more general difficulties in the prelinguistic conceptual phase of message planning and mental model generation. Such weaknesses included a difficulty in the non-verbal conceptualization of the story and the generation of an internal representation of the addressee's mental model.

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“…However, the results of the present study should be interpreted in light of several methodological considerations. First of all, and given the verbal nature of the FTT, it could have been useful to include a control task aimed at assessing narrative skills, similar to what has been done in previous studies (Lind et al 2014;Marini et al 2019). Furthermore, the temporal distance of the future events (i.e.…”

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“…Studies focusing on children and adolescents also found greater difficulties in generating scenarios happening in the future (Jackson and Atance 2008;Terrett et al 2013). Less vivid narratives (Anger et al 2019) along with difficulties in scene-construction (Ciaramelli et al 2018), self-projection (Hanson and Atance 2014;Marini et al 2016) and narrative skills (Marini et al 2019) were also reported. However, the link between EFT, AP and SF impairments has, to our knowledge, never been studied.…”

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Episodic Future Thinking in Autism Spectrum Disorder and 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Association with Anticipatory Pleasure and Social Functioning

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Episodic future thinking (EFT) has been suggested to underlie anticipatory pleasure (AP), itself known to play a crucial role in social functioning (SF). Both AP and SF are impaired in various clinical populations, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS). Therefore, the relationship between EFT, AP and SF was investigated, as well as the potential role of projecting oneself in a social vs. non-social context. Seventy-seven participants [24 with 22q11DS, 20 with ASD, 33 typically developing controls (TDs)] (aged 12–25) were included. They were assessed with a future thinking task in which they were asked to recall a memory and produce a likely event. Narratives were rated based of specificity, richness and imaginability. Participants completed questionnaires assessing AP and SF. Narratives from ASD and 22q11DS participants were rated as less vivid compared to TDs. However, the characteristics of the narratives differed between ASD and 22q11DS participants in terms of specificity and level of details, as well as in reaction to social condition. Moreover, correlations were found between AP and EFT in both ASD and 22q11DS participants, and between SF and EFT in ASD participants. These results point towards impairments in EFT in both ASD and 22q11DS participants but with a specific profile in each condition. The observed associations between EFT and AP suggest that decreased autonoetic consciousness might underlie AP impairments. In ASD individuals, the association between SF and EFT highlights the need to better characterize EFT since EFT could be another mechanism contributing to social difficulties.

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Episodic future thinking and narrative discourse generation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Cited by 35 publications

References 41 publications

Linguistic Skills in Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorders: A Pilot Study

Linguistic Skills in Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorders: A Pilot Study

Toward a Definition of the Linguistic Profile of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Episodic Future Thinking in Autism Spectrum Disorder and 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Association with Anticipatory Pleasure and Social Functioning

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