Reduced Sensitivity to Minimum-Jerk Biological Motion in Autism Spectrum Conditions

Autor/inn/en	Cook, Jennifer; Saygin, Ayse Pinar; Swain, Rachel; Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne
Titel	Reduced Sensitivity to Minimum-Jerk Biological Motion in Autism Spectrum Conditions
Quelle	In: Neuropsychologia, 47 (2009) 14, S.3275-3278 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0028-3932
DOI	10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.07.010
Schlagwörter	Racquet Sports; Autism; Motion; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Comparative Analysis; Adults; Control Groups; Psychophysiology; Profiles; Animation; Task Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Bewegungsablauf; Psychophysiologie; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	We compared psychophysical thresholds for biological and non-biological motion detection in adults with autism spectrum conditions (ASCs) and controls. Participants watched animations of a biological stimulus (a moving hand) or a non-biological stimulus (a falling tennis ball). The velocity profile of the movement was varied between 100% natural motion (minimum-jerk (MJ) for the hand; gravitational (G) for the ball) and 100% constant velocity (CV). Participants were asked to judge which animation was "less natural" in a two-interval forced-choice paradigm and thresholds were estimated adaptively. There was a significant interaction between group and condition. Thresholds in the MJ condition were lower than in the G condition for the NC group whereas there was no difference between the thresholds in the two conditions for the ASC group. Thus, unlike the controls, the ASC group did not show an increased sensitivity for perturbation to biological over non-biological velocity profiles. (Contains 1 table and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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