Motion and form coherence detection in autistic spectrum disorder: Relationship to motor control and 2:4 digit ratio
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Children with autistic spectrum disorder and controls performed tasks of coherent motion and form detection, and motor control. Additionally, the ratio of the 2nd and 4th digits of these children, which is thought to be an indicator of foetal testosterone, was measured. Children in the experimental group were impaired at tasks of motor control, and had lower 2D:4D than controls. There were no group differences in motion or form detection. However a sub-group of children with autism were selectively impaired at motion detection. There were significant relationships between motion coherence detection and motor control in both groups of children, and also between motion detection, fine motor control and 2D:4D in the group of children with autistic spectrum disorder.
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Milne et al. (2006) found that only about 20% of their ASD population had motion coherence thresholds outside the typical range.
“Milne et al. (2006) also found that only a sub-group of their ASD population (about 20%) had motion coherence thresholds outside the typical range.”
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- Authors
- Milne, E., White, S., Campbell, R., Swettenham, J., Hansen, P., & Ramus, F.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Milne, Elizabeth
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 2006-02
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 225-237
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- OpenAlex
- W2128225333
- Cited by
- 144
- References
- 66
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 8 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 5.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (RES-620-28-6001)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, motion detection, motor control, fine motor control, prenatal testosterone, visual perception, children
- MeSH terms
- Autistic Disorder, Child, Female, Fetal Blood, Form Perception, Humans, Male, Motion Perception, Perceptual Disorders, Severity of Illness Index, Testosterone, Signal Detection, Psychological, Asperger Syndrome
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