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THE INFLUENCE OF SPATIAL COGNITION IN THEORY OF MIND AND CENTRAL COHERENCE TASKS: STUDY IN AUTISM
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ADS) is a severe developmental disability characterized by impairments in social interaction and communicative skills. Despite a growing research interest in the field, the causes of these impairments remain unknown. Two lines of research, Theory of Mind (ToM) and Central Coherence (CC), using experimental tasks such as visuo-spatial perspective Taking (VPT) and the local and global levels have suggested that visuo-spatial attention and spatial variables in the self-versus other recognition, may be the basis of the cognitive processes underlying social interaction. According to spatial attention, such as observed in the Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) may contribu…
Raccontare e rappresentare le lingue e lo spazio. L'esperienza dell'Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia
2017
La Dialettologia Percettiva, disciplina che si occupa dello studio delle opinioni dei parlanti sulle varietà di lingua, nell'ultimo decennio ha rinnovato i propri fondamenti. Il volume da un lato intende ripercorrere criticamente tali profonde innovazioni, dall'altro propone una serie di modelli originali per l'analisi e l'interpretazione dei dati. Il corpus della ricerca è costituito dalle risposte di circa 900 informatori distribuiti in 60 punti d'inchiesta a tre domande del questionario dell'Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS) pensate per rilevare la percezione e rappresentazione della differenza linguistica. Una mole imponente di dati che sono stati trattati con un approccio quanti-…
Positive Effects of Videogame Use on Visuospatial Competencies: The Impact of Visualization Style in Preadolescents and Adolescents
2019
Use of videogames (VGs) is almost ubiquitous in preadolescents' and adolescents' everyday life. One of the most intriguing research topics about positive effects of VG use is about the domain of visuospatial competencies. Previous research show that training with videogames enables children and adolescents to improve their scores in visuospatial tests (such as mental rotation of shapes and cubes), and that such training could overcome gender differences in these domains. Our study aimed at (1) verifying the positive effects of videogame use in the visuospatial domain both for male and female adolescents and preadolescents and (2) verifying whether the visualization style (2D or isometric 3D…