Schematic and realistic biological motion identification in children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder

Wright, Kristyn; Kelley, Elizabeth; Poulin‐Dubois, Diane

doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2014.07.005

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“…Given the pictures of nonsocial threats included pictures of snakes only, it is interesting that the early microstates elicited in lonely individuals by social threats tend to reflect attention and the orchestration of responses to threat, whereas the early microstates elicited by nonsocial threats tend to reflect the more nuanced processes of social perception and episodic memory. The present involvement of brain areas sustaining biological motion perception is in line with the fact that the nonsocial threat stimuli, such as pictures of snakes, are known to invoke a schematic biological identification (even in the absence of local image motion; Beintema & Lappe, 2002), as they correspond to a biological threat known to produce a visceral fear response in the majority of individuals (Wright, Kelley, & Poulin-Dubois, 2014). …”

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Loneliness and implicit attention to social threat: A high-performance electrical neuroimaging study

Cacioppo

Bangee

Balogh

et al. 2015

Cognitive Neuroscience

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Prior research has suggested that loneliness is associated with an implicit hypervigilance to social threats-an assumption in line with the evolutionary model of loneliness that indicates feeling socially isolated (or on the social perimeter) leads to increased attention and surveillance of the social world and an unwitting focus on self-preservation. Little is known, however, about the temporal dynamics for social threat (vs. nonsocial threat) in the lonely brains. We used high-density electrical neuroimaging and a behavioral task including social and nonsocial threat (and neutral) pictures to investigate the brain dynamics of implicit processing for social threat vs. nonsocial threat stimuli in lonely participants (N = 10), compared to nonlonely individuals (N = 9). The present study provides evidence that social threat images are differentiated from nonsocial threat stimuli more quickly in the lonely (~116 ms after stimulus onset) than nonlonely (~252 ms after stimulus onset) brains. That speed of threat processing in lonely individuals is in accord with the evolutionary model of loneliness. Brain source estimates expanded these results by suggesting that lonely (but not nonlonely) individuals showed early recruitment of brain areas involved in attention and self-representation.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Loneliness and implicit attention to social threat: A high-performance electrical neuroimaging study

Cacioppo

Bangee

Balogh

et al. 2015

Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Non-biological motion in ASD vs. TD . This meta-analysis is limited to the studies that test, together with the perception of a BM stimulus, also the processing of another stimulus that can be defined as a non-BM stimulus (i.e., an object as a bike or a truck presented in PLD 109,112 or of a scrambled version of the BM stimulus 39,113,114 (n = 5). It is important to note that we do not consider this analysis to be ultimately conclusive, because an extensive analysis of this type should include also other types of non-BM tasks such as coherent motion, form-from-motion, etc.…”

Section: Impact Of Low-level Features Of Bm Scrambled Stimuli In Asd mentioning

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Anomalous Perception of Biological Motion in Autism: A Conceptual Review and Meta-Analysis

Federici

Parma

Vicovaro

et al. 2020

Sci Rep

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Despite its popularity, the construct of biological motion (BM) and its putative anomalies in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not completely clarified. In this article, we present a meta-analysis investigating the putative anomalies of BM perception in ASD. Through a systematic literature search, we found 30 studies that investigated BM perception in both ASD and typical developing peers by using point-light display stimuli. A general meta-analysis including all these studies showed a moderate deficit of individuals with ASD in BM processing, but also a high heterogeneity. This heterogeneity was explored in different additional meta-analyses where studies were grouped according to levels of complexity of the BM task employed (first-order, direct and instrumental), and according to the manipulation of low-level perceptual features (spatial vs. temporal) of the control stimuli. Results suggest that the most severe deficit in ASD is evident when perception of BM is serving a secondary purpose (e.g., inferring intentionality/action/emotion) and, interestingly, that temporal dynamics of stimuli are an important factor in determining BM processing anomalies in ASD. Our results question the traditional understanding of BM anomalies in ASD as a monolithic deficit and suggest a paradigm shift that deconstructs BM into distinct levels of processing and specific spatio-temporal subcomponents.

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“…We observed no evidence of impairments in the processing of non-BM stimuli in individuals with ASD; this suggests that the deficit is selective for BM stimuli and to their specific spatio-temporal pattern, whereas other types of complex stimuli in motion do not elicit a similar impairment. Among the non-BM tasks tested, we can find recognition/categorization of an object as a bike or a truck presented in PLD (Hubert et al, 2007;Wright et al, 2014) but also recognition/categorization of a scrambled version of the BM stimulus (Herrington et al, 2007;Kröger et al, 2014;Murphy et al, 2009). It is clear however that testing the scrambled version of BM stimuli is not ideal to claim that the deficit observed in individuals with ASD is specific to stimuli moving in a biological fashion.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…were only two studies that tested non-BM processing using tasks where the form was preserved (Hubert et al, 2007;Wright et al, 2014). These two studies, however, found no clear evidence of impairments in participants with ASD, independently of the nature of the moving stimuli (BM vs. non-BM) employed.…”

Section: Is the Impairment Observed In Asd Specific To Biological Motmentioning

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Anomalous Perception of Biological Motion in Autism: A Conceptual Review and Meta-Analysis

Federici

Parma

Vicovaro

et al. 2019

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The construct of biological motion (BM) has gained increasing popularity in the last decades and has been widely investigated as a marker of social difficulties in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, studies testing BM have extremely heterogeneous experimental protocols and, moreover, evidence of BM perception anomalies in ASD have been mixed. In this article, we present a meta-analysis investigating the putative anomalies of BM perception in ASD. Through a systematic literature search, we found 27 studies that investigated BM perception in both ASD and typical developing (TD) peers by using point-light display stimuli. A general meta-analysis including all these studies showed a moderate deficit of individuals with ASD in BM processing, but also a high heterogeneity. This heterogeneity was explored in different additional meta-analyses where studies were grouped according to different levels of complexity of the BM task employed (first-order, direct and instrumental), and according to the manipulation of lowlevel perceptual features (spatial vs. temporal) of the control stimuli used as comparison.Results suggest that the most severe deficit in ASD is evident when perception of BM is serving a secondary purpose (e.g. inferring intentionality/action/emotion) and, interestingly, that temporal dynamics of stimuli is an important factor in determining BM processing anomalies in ASD. Our results question the traditional understanding of BM anomalies in ASD as a monolithic deficit and suggest a paradigm shift that deconstructs BM into distinct levels of processing and specific spatio-temporal subcomponents.

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Schematic and realistic biological motion identification in children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder

Cited by 14 publications

References 69 publications

Loneliness and implicit attention to social threat: A high-performance electrical neuroimaging study

Loneliness and implicit attention to social threat: A high-performance electrical neuroimaging study

Anomalous Perception of Biological Motion in Autism: A Conceptual Review and Meta-Analysis

Anomalous Perception of Biological Motion in Autism: A Conceptual Review and Meta-Analysis

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