Components of person perception: An investigation with autistic, non-autistic retarded and typically developing children and adolescents
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This study is an attempt to analyse whether there may be separable components to the human ability to perceive people as people who engage in actions and who have attitudes. We adopted the approach of developmental psychopathology. Matched groups of typically developing, autistic and non‐autistic retarded (MR) children and adolescents were tested for the ability to recognize videotaped representations of ‘a person’, a person's actions and a person's emotion‐related attitudes and allied subjective states as manifest in moving point‐light images of people. Autistic and non‐autistic MR participants did not differ in the ability to recognize that a person was represented in very brief exposures of a walking point‐light display; autistic, MR and typically developing participants were equally able to recognize a person's actions. Non‐autistic MR and typically developing participants were also similar in their propensity to notice a person's attitudes vis‐à‐vis the person's actions, and in their abilities to recognize actions and attitudes when specifically asked to do so. By comparison, however, autistic participants were specifically impaired in attending to and discriminating people's attitudes and states. The results are discussed in relation to current debates on the nature of basic person‐perceptual abilities that may underpin typically developing children's understanding of persons with minds ('theory of mind'). We also consider their relevance for controversies over the primary deficits in autism.
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“Recent interest has developed in the biological motion detection abilities of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (Atkinson, 2009; Moore et al., 1997).”
BackgroundNegative emotion does not enhance recall skills in adults with autistic spectrum disorders
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“…various aspects of affectively patterned communication (e.g., Corona, Dissanayake, Arbelle, Wellington & Sigman, 1998; Hobson, Ouston & Lee, 1988, Joseph & Tager-Flusberg, 1997; Kasari, Sigman, Mundy & Yirmiya, 1990; Loveland, 2003; Moore, Hobson & Lee, 1997; Sigman, Kasari, Kwon & Yirmiya, 1993).”
Emotion recognition in children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
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“Hobson and colleagues (Moore et al 1997, Hobson 2002) showed that exactly this ability to perceive a biological movemnt as displaying a certain emotion (like anger or happiness) is impaired in autistic children.”
BackgroundImpaired Perception of Facial Motion in Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Kinematic dataset of actors expressing emotions
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“They are even more impaired when asked to report the emotions depicted in the observed actions (Moore et al., 1997; Hubert et al., 2007; Atkinson, 2009; Congiu et al., 2010) or expressed on a face (Teunisse and de Gelder, 2001; Ashwin et al., 2006).”
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- Authors
- Moore, D. G., Hobson, R. P., & Lee, A.
- Affiliations
- The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Moore, Derek G.
- Hobson, R. Peter
- ORCID
- Hobson, R. Peter
- Venue
- British Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1997-11
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 401-423
- ISSN
- 0261-510X (ISSN-L)
- 2044-835X
- OpenAlex
- W1987821529
- Cited by
- 229
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 20
- FWCI
- 2.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- British Journal of Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Open Research (University of Surrey) (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Surrey Research Insight Open Access (The University of Surrey) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- person perception, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, theory of mind, point-light displays, facial expression recognition, emotion recognition, human action recognition, social cognition, developmental psychopathology, children and adolescents
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