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Soziale Kognition bei Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen und Störungen des Sozialverhaltens

Published Online:December 03, 2013https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000125

Abstract

Soziale Kognition umfasst eine Reihe von impliziten und expliziten Informationsverarbeitungsprozessen, die im Rahmen der sozialen Interaktion stattfinden, wie zum Beispiel die implizite Aufmerksamkeitszuwendung, die Emotionserkennung oder die Theory of Mind. Defizite in der sozialen Kognition werden im Zusammenhang mit Störungsbildern, zu deren Kernsymptomatik eine Störung in der sozialen Interaktion zählt, angenommen, darunter Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen (ASS) und Störungen des Sozialverhaltens (SSV). Die vorliegende Übersichtsarbeit gibt einen Einblick in den derzeitigen Forschungsstand mit einem Fokus auf Verhaltens- und Bildgebungsstudien über verschiedene Prozesse der sozialen Kognition bei diesen beiden Störungsbildern.


Social cognition in autism spectrum disorder and conduct disorder

Social cognition comprises different aspects of implicit and explicit information processing which take place during social interaction, e. g., implicit attention on social stimuli, emotion recognition, or theory of mind. Deficits in social cognition are associated with disorders that contain symptoms of social interaction deficits, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and conduct disorder (CD). This review gives an overview of the current literature on different aspects of social cognition in ASD and CD focusing on behavioral and fMRI studies.

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