Figurative language processing in autism spectrum disorders: A review.
Theory of Mind
autism spectrum disorder
executive functions
figurative language
language skills
pragmatics
Journal
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research
ISSN: 1939-3806
Titre abrégé: Autism Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101461858
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 Dec 2023
10 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
11
08
2023
accepted:
16
11
2023
medline:
10
12
2023
pubmed:
10
12
2023
entrez:
10
12
2023
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Impairments in the broader domain of pragmatics are considered to be a defining feature of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A challenging aspect of pragmatic competence is the ability to process nonliteral language. Interestingly, previous studies in figurative language comprehension in ASD have demonstrated conflicting results regarding participants' performance. The main scientific debate focuses on the underlying skills which facilitate processing of nonliteral speech in ASD. Namely, Theory of Mind (ToM), language abilities and Executive functions (EFs) are regarded as factors affecting autistic individuals' performance. This review addresses figurative language comprehension in ASD in light of the above three interpretive accounts. We reviewed data from recent studies in this field concluding that autistic children indeed encounter systematic difficulties in the processing of non-literal language. Moreover, only ToM and verbal skills were found to correlate the most with figurative language comprehension in ASD. Notably, we found that differences related to research methodology and tasks' properties may have led to discrepancies between studies' results. Finally, we argue that future studies should encompass in their experimental design figurative comprehension tasks with minimal linguistic demands and also measures of ToM, verbal ability and EFs in order to shed more light in the independent contribution of those skills to the processing of nonliteral language in ASD.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
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IM
Subventions
Organisme : The research project entitled "Autism, Theory of Mind and Bilingualism (AuTism)" is implemented in the framework of H.F.R.I call "Basic research Financing (Horizontal support of all Sciences)" under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan "Greece 2.0" funded by the European Union -NextGeneration EU (H.F.R.I. Project Number: 14942, Principal Investigator: Maria Andreou).
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© 2023 The Authors. Autism Research published by International Society for Autism Research and Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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