Exploring the relationship between autism spectrum disorder traits and metacognition sensitivity

IAIR EMBON; FERNANDO CUKIER; ALBERTO IORIO; PABLO BARTTFELD; GUILLERMO SOLOVEY

CABA

Conferencia; Simposio Argentino de Ciencia de Datos y Grandes Datos (JAIIO),; 2021

Abstract. Given the large amounts of data that are currently acquiredand manipulated, a new field called Computational Psychiatry has emerged.One of the best examples where computational psychiatry has contributedto neurodevelopmental syndromes comes from the study on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). One of the current problems to which attentionhas recently begun to be paid is whether or not people with ASD have altered metacognition. The importance of exploring metacognition in ASDlies in practical and theoretical implications. However, the results foundby studies exploring metacognition in people with ASD are inconsistent with each other. Only one study has utilized a bias-free measure ofmetacognition as in the present study. The main objective of this studywas to contribute to the debate, through the study of metacognition inASD traits in a sample of neurotypical people in an online experimentwith a perceptual task. The results have not shown a statistically significant relationship between ASD traits and metacognition. These resultsare consistent with some of the previous studies