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Visual recognition of biological motion is impaired in children with autism

Blake, Randolph, Turner, Lauren M., Smoski, Moria J., Pozdol, Stacie L., Stone, Wendy L.·2003·Psychological Science
DOI 10.1111/1467-9280.01434
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Autistic children and typically developing control children were tested on two visual tasks, one involving grouping of small line elements into a global figure and the other involving perception of human activity portrayed in point-light animations. Performance of the two groups was equivalent on the figure task, but autistic children were significantly impaired on the biological motion task. This latter deficit may be related to the impaired social skills characteristic of autism, and we speculate that this deficit may implicate abnormalities in brain areas mediating perception of human movement.

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  • Theory of mind tasks frequently activate the upper bank of the superior temporal sulcus, inferior frontal regions, and the anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex.

    “Neuroimaging studies that have examined the neuronal correlates of ToM tasks frequently reveal active regions of the upper bank of the superior temporal sulcus (STS, associated with biological motion perception; Blake et al., 2003), as well as inferior frontal regions (including the putative ‘mirror neuron’ system), and the anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (Frith and Frith, 1999;”

    From Behavioral, Perceptual, and Neural Alterations in Sensory and Multisensory Function in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015) · cites this paper as Blake et al., 2003

  • Children with ASD fail to preferentially attend to biological over non-social motion.

    “Studies using point-light displays, which allow motion perception without the confound of form, reveal that children with ASD fail to preferentially attend to biological over non-social motion (Klin et al., 2009, Blake et al., 2003, Annaz et al., 2012).”

    From The impact of atypical sensory processing on social impairments in autism spectrum disorder (2018) · cites this paper as Blake et al., 2003

  • Blake et al. (2003) found a significant negative correlation between individual d' scores for the ASD group and level of autism as measured by ADOS and CARS, although there was also a correlation within the ASD group with MA.

    “In addition, Blake et al. (2003) plotted the individual d 0 scores for the ASD group as a function of their ''level”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Blake et al. (2003)

  • Some 25% (4/16) of Blake et al.'s (2003) original ASD sample could not complete the biological motion task, and 3 of these could not complete the form task either; these were all children with lower scores on a test of expressive language.

    “Note that some 25% (4/16) of Blake et al.'s (2003) original ASD sample could not complete the biological motion task and 3 of these could not complete the form task either.These were all children with lower scores on a test of expressive language.”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Blake et al. (2003)

  • Blake et al. (2003) found that typically developing group performed significantly better than ASD group on biological motion task, with mean d' close to 2.5 and close to 1, respectively, despite equivalent performance on a control pathfinder task.

    “Blake et al. (2003) calculated a d 0 score for the biological motion task and found that their typically developing group performed significantly better in this task than their ASD group with mean d 0 of close to 2.5 and close to 1, respectively.This is despite the two groups showing equivalent performance on a control ''pathfinder”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Blake et al. (2003)

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Authors
Blake, R., Turner, L. M., Smoski, M. J., Pozdol, S. L., & Stone, W. L.
Affiliations
  • Vanderbilt University (US)
  • Department of Psychology and Human Development
  • Department of Psychology
Corresponding author
Blake, Randolph
ORCID
Venue
Psychological Science
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2003-03
Volume
14
Issue
2
Pages
151-157
ISSN
  • 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9280
DOI
10.1111/1467-9280.01434
OpenAlex
W2106126272
Cited by
571
References
43
Citations by year
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FWCI
13.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Public Health Service (T3207226)
  • National Eye Institute (EY07760, R01EY007760)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, biological motion perception, visual grouping, social skills deficits, children
MeSH terms
Attention, Autistic Disorder, Child, Child, Preschool, Concept Formation, Female, Humans, Male, Motion Perception, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Perceptual Closure, Problem Solving, Psychophysics, Reference Values, Social Behavior

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