Feedback and reward processing in high-functioning autism

Larson, Michael J.; South, Mikle; Krauskopf, Erin; Clawson, Ann; Crowley, Michael J.

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2010.11.006

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“…Such feedback has been found to be effective in teaching social behavior to children with ASD [13]. There is a growing practice of robots being used in ASD interventions.…”

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Graded cueing feedback in robot-mediated imitation practice for children with autism spectrum disorders

Greczek

Kaszubski

Atrash

et al. 2014

The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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We performed a study that examined the effects of a humanoid robot giving the minimum required feedback -graded cueingduring a one-on-one imitation game played children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). 12 high-functioning participants with ASD, ages 7 to 10, each played "Copy-Cat" with a Nao robot 5 times over the span of 2.5 weeks. While the graded cueing model was not exercised in its fullest, using graded cueing-style feedback resulted in a nondecreasing trend in imitative accuracy when compared to a non-adaptive condition, where participants always received the same, most descriptive feedback whenever they made a mistake. These trends show promise for future work with robots encouraging autonomy in special needs populations.

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“…Such feedback has been found to be effective in teaching social behavior to children with ASD [13]. There is a growing practice of robots being used in ASD interventions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Larson found that children with ASD prefer concrete feedback, such as lights, colors, and sounds, which can be measured and quantified [13]. Ingersoll reported that multimodal feedback is more effective than any single feedback modality alone [10].…”

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Graded cueing feedback in robot-mediated imitation practice for children with autism spectrum disorders

Greczek

Kaszubski

Atrash

et al. 2014

The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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“…Should social feedback fail to shape attentional priorities in an individual, broad deficits in social reciprocity might be expected, as well as blunted preferences for sociallyrelevant stimuli. Aberrant feedback processing is a well-documented feature of autism, particularly when outcomes are never fully predictable or rely on complex contextual contingencies (e.g., Dawson et al, 2001;Larson et al, 2011;Van de Cruys et al, 2014;Vlamings et al, 2008). The role of social feedback in shaping attention to other, non-social stimuli that are predictive of such feedback has not been examined in the context of autism.…”

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Relating Attentional Biases for Stimuli Associated with Social Reward and Punishment to Autistic Traits

Anderson

Kim

2018

Collabra: Psychology

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Evidence for impaired attention to social stimuli in autism has been mixed. The role of social feedback in shaping attention to other, non-social stimuli that are predictive of such feedback has not been examined in the context of autism. In the present study, participants searched for a color-defined target during a training phase, with the color of the target predicting the emotional reaction of a face that appeared after each trial. Then, participants performed visual search for a shape-defined target while trying to ignore the color of stimuli. On a subset of trials, one of the non-targets was rendered in the color of a former target from training. Autistic traits were measured for each participant using the Autism Quotient (AQ). Our findings replicate robust attentional capture by stimuli learned to predict valenced social feedback. There was no evidence that autistic traits are associated with blunted attention to predictors of social outcomes. Consistent with an emerging body of literature, our findings cast doubt on strong versions of the claim that autistic traits can be explained by a blunted influence of social information on the attention system. We extend these findings to non-social stimuli that predict socially relevant information.

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“…Various robots have previously been used to shape child behavior [16,3,5]. Robins et al [16] found that four children with ASD imitated a doll-like robotic toy, often without any initial prompting; they attributed this to the robot's "simpler" physical appearance.…”

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“…Robins et al [16] found that four children with ASD imitated a doll-like robotic toy, often without any initial prompting; they attributed this to the robot's "simpler" physical appearance. Duquette et al [3] found that a humanoid robot elicited more shared attention between two children with ASD than a human mediator.…”

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A Computational Model of Graded Cueing: Robots Encouraging Behavior Change

Greczek

Atrash

Matarić

2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. This work presents a model of the occupational therapy technique of graded cueing for teaching and practicing desirable health and social behaviors adapted for use in socially assistive human-machine interaction. Graded cueing is represented as a probabilistic model of first prompt choice based on the perceived user ability level. The model is used to increase imitation proficiency of children with autism spectrum disorders through a "Copy Cat" imitation game.

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Feedback and reward processing in high-functioning autism

Cited by 87 publications

References 51 publications

Graded cueing feedback in robot-mediated imitation practice for children with autism spectrum disorders

Graded cueing feedback in robot-mediated imitation practice for children with autism spectrum disorders

Relating Attentional Biases for Stimuli Associated with Social Reward and Punishment to Autistic Traits

A Computational Model of Graded Cueing: Robots Encouraging Behavior Change

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