Developmental tuning of reflexive attentional effect to biological motion cues

Zhao, Jing; Wang, Li; Wang, Ying; Weng, Xuchu; Li, Su; Jiang, Yi

doi:10.1038/srep05558

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“…A previous study has demonstrated that the walking direction of BM cues can trigger a reflexive orienting effect ( Shi, Weng, He, & Jiang, 2010 ). This attentional effect can also be observed in preschool children and 6-month-old infants ( Bardi, Di Giorgio, Lunghi, Troje, & Simion, 2015 ; Zhao, Wang, Wang, Weng, Li, & Jiang, 2014 ). Such BM-induced attentional orienting effect persists even when the global configuration of BM is disrupted and observers are naïve to its biological nature ( L. Wang, Yang, Shi, & Jiang, 2014 ).…”

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Cross-modal social attention triggered by biological motion cues

Wang

et al. 2020

Journal of Vision

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Previous research has demonstrated that biological motion (BM) cues can induce reflexive attentional orienting. This BM-triggered social attention has hitherto only been investigated within visual modality. It remains unknown whether and to what extent social attention induced by BM cues can occur across different sensory modalities. By introducing auditory stimuli to a modified central cueing paradigm, we showed that observers responded significantly faster to auditory targets presented in the walking direction of BM than in the opposite direction, reflecting the notion that BM cues can trigger cross-modal social attention. This effect was not due to the viewpoint effect of the global configuration and could be extended to local BM cues without any global configuration. Critically, such cross-modal social attention was sensitive to the orientation of BM cues and completely disappeared when critical biological characteristics were removed. Our findings, taken together, support the existence of a special multimodal attention mechanism tuned to life motion signals and shed new light on the unique and cross-modal nature of social attention.

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Cross-modal social attention triggered by biological motion cues

Wang

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Journal of Vision

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“…This leads to a difficulty with imitation (Vanvuchelen et al, 2013) and joint attention (Zhao et al, 2014), and has been regarded as one of the causes of the symptom A in Table 1.…”

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Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis about the Etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Inui

Kumagaya

Myowa‐Yamakoshi

2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Previous models or hypotheses of autism spectral disorder (ASD) failed to take into full consideration the chronological and causal developmental trajectory, leading to the emergence of diverse phenotypes through a complex interaction between individual etiologies and environmental factors. Those phenotypes include persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction (criteria A in DSM-5), and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities (criteria B in DSM-5). In this article, we proposed a domain-general model that can explain criteria in DSM-5 based on the assumption that the same etiological mechanism would trigger the various phenotypes observed in different individuals with ASD. In the model, we assumed the following joint causes as the etiology of autism: (1) Hypoplasia of the pons in the brainstem, occurring immediately following neural tube closure; and (2) Deficiency in the GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) developmental switch during the perinatal period. Microstructural abnormalities of the pons directly affect both the structural and functional development of the brain areas strongly connected to it, especially amygdala. The impairment of GABA switch could not only lead to the deterioration of inhibitory processing in the neural network, but could also cause abnormal cytoarchitecture. We introduced a perspective that atypical development in both brain structure and function can give full explanation of diverse phenotypes and pathogenetic mechanism of ASD. Finally, we discussed about neural mechanisms underlying the phenotypic characteristics of ASD that are not described in DSM-5 but should be considered as important foundation: sleep, global precedence, categorical perception, intelligence, interoception and motor control.

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“…Studies focusing on biological motion demonstrate early emergence of this perceptual skill: even newborn babies show a preference for upright over inverted biological motion displays (e.g., Fox and McDaniel, 1982 ; Bertenthal et al, 1984 ; Simion et al, 2008 ), demonstrating their sensitivity to parameters that affect the perception of biological motion in adults (see Bertenthal et al, 1984 , for a discussion). Developmental studies beyond infancy, however, show that while 5-year-olds (Pavlova et al, 2000 ; Blake et al, 2003 ) and even 4-year-olds (Sweeny et al, 2013 ; Zhao et al, 2014 ) are as sensitive as adults to biological motion in displays without noise dots, substantial age-related change is seen in this sensitivity throughout childhood when the display includes moving noise dots (Pavlova et al, 2000 ; Jordan et al, 2002 ; Freire et al, 2006 ). When directly compared to global motion in the same participants with dots moving at the same speed, these skills of motion integration, for both RDKs measuring global motion and biological motion, show similar, long developmental trajectories (Hadad et al, 2011 ).…”

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Motion perception: a review of developmental changes and the role of early visual experience

Hadad

Schwartz

Maurer

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Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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Significant controversies have arisen over the developmental trajectory for the perception of global motion. Studies diverge on the age at which it becomes adult-like, with estimates ranging from as young as 3 years to as old as 16. In this article, we review these apparently conflicting results and suggest a potentially unifying hypothesis that may also account for the contradictory literature in neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We also discuss the extent to which patterned visual input during this period is necessary for the later development of motion perception. We conclude by addressing recent studies directly comparing different types of motion integration, both in typical and atypical development, and suggest areas ripe for future research.

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Developmental tuning of reflexive attentional effect to biological motion cues

Cited by 23 publications

References 51 publications

Cross-modal social attention triggered by biological motion cues

Cross-modal social attention triggered by biological motion cues

Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis about the Etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Motion perception: a review of developmental changes and the role of early visual experience

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