AUTHOR=Blancas Maria , Maffei Giovanni , Sánchez-Fibla Martí , Vouloutsi Vasiliki , Verschure Paul F. M. J. 

TITLE=Collaboration Variability in Autism Spectrum Disorder

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

VOLUME=14

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2020.559793

DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2020.559793

ISSN=1662-5161

ABSTRACT=<p>This paper addresses how impairments in prediction in young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) relate to their behavior during collaboration. To assess it, we developed a task where participants play in collaboration with a synthetic agent to maximize their score. The agent’s behavior changes during the different phases of the game, requiring participants to model the agent’s sensorimotor contingencies to play collaboratively. Our results (<italic>n</italic> = 30, 15 per group) show differences between autistic and neurotypical individuals in their behavioral adaptation to the other partner. Contrarily, there are no differences in the self-reports of that collaboration.</p>