Intact recognition, but attenuated adaptation, for biological motion in youth with autism spectrum disorder

Autism Research - Tập 9 Số 10 - Trang 1103-1113 - 2016
Jeroen J. A. van Boxtel1, Mirella Dapretto2, Hongjing Lu3,4
1School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
2Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
3Department of Psychology and Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
4Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles

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Given the ecological importance of biological motion and its relevance to social cognition, considerable effort has been devoted over the past decade to studying biological motion perception in autism. However, previous studies have asked observers to detect or recognize briefly presented human actions placed in isolation, without spatial or temporal context. Research on typical populations has shown the influence of temporal context in biological motion perception: prolonged exposure to one action gives rise to an aftereffect that biases perception of a subsequently displayed action. Whether people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show such adaptation effects for biological motion stimuli remains unknown. To address this question, this study examined how well youth with ASD recognize ambiguous actions and adapt to recently‐observed actions. Compared to typically‐developing (TD) controls, youth with ASD showed no differences in perceptual boundaries between actions categories, indicating intact ability in recognizing actions. However, children with ASD showed weakened adaptation to biological motion. It is unlikely that the reduced action adaptability in autism was due to delayed developmental trajectory, as older children with ASD showed weaker adaptation to actions than younger children with ASD. Our results further suggest that high‐level (i.e., action) processing weakens with age for children with ASD, but this change may be accompanied by a potentially compensatory mechanism based on more involvement of low‐level (i.e., motion) processing. Autism Res 2016, 9: 1103–1113. © 2016 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Autism Research

Tập 9 Số 10

1103-1113

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