Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people

This short video summarises the findings of a team involving our Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences as well as colleagues from the University of Nottingham and the University of Texas at Dallas. Led by Catherine Crompton, they have been working on a follow-up to a study that compared how autistic groups, non-autistic groups and mixed groups share information and build rapport. Their latest paper, using a larger and more diverse sample, has just been released.

They found:

• Non-autistic people preferred interacting with non-autistic people

• Autistic people preferred learning from autistic people

• Mixed pairs had lower rapport

• People who knew their interaction partners diagnostic status had better rapport than those who didn’t