Difficulties in Recognising Dynamic but not Static Emotional Body Movements in Autism Spectrum Disorder

In this study, we investigated whether the difficulties in body motion (BM) perception may led to deficit in emotion recognition in Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To this aim, individuals with high-functioning ASD were asked to recognise fearful, happy, and neutral BM depicted as static images or d...

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Autores principales: Mazzoni, Noemi, Ricciardelli, Paola, Actis-Grosso, Rossana, Venuti, Paola
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Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8854267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33866488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05015-7
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author Mazzoni, Noemi
Ricciardelli, Paola
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Venuti, Paola
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description In this study, we investigated whether the difficulties in body motion (BM) perception may led to deficit in emotion recognition in Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To this aim, individuals with high-functioning ASD were asked to recognise fearful, happy, and neutral BM depicted as static images or dynamic point-light and full-light displays. Results showed slower response times in participants with ASD only in recognising dynamic stimuli, but no group differences in accuracy. This suggests that i) a deficit in action chaining mechanism in ASD may prevent the recognition of dynamic BM automatically and rapidly, ii) individuals with ASD and high cognitive resources can develop alternative—but equally successful—strategies to recognise emotional body expressions. Implications for treatment are discussed SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-021-05015-7.
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spelling pubmed-88542672022-02-23 Difficulties in Recognising Dynamic but not Static Emotional Body Movements in Autism Spectrum Disorder Mazzoni, Noemi Ricciardelli, Paola Actis-Grosso, Rossana Venuti, Paola J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper In this study, we investigated whether the difficulties in body motion (BM) perception may led to deficit in emotion recognition in Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To this aim, individuals with high-functioning ASD were asked to recognise fearful, happy, and neutral BM depicted as static images or dynamic point-light and full-light displays. Results showed slower response times in participants with ASD only in recognising dynamic stimuli, but no group differences in accuracy. This suggests that i) a deficit in action chaining mechanism in ASD may prevent the recognition of dynamic BM automatically and rapidly, ii) individuals with ASD and high cognitive resources can develop alternative—but equally successful—strategies to recognise emotional body expressions. Implications for treatment are discussed SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-021-05015-7. Springer US 2021-04-17 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8854267/ /pubmed/33866488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05015-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_short Difficulties in Recognising Dynamic but not Static Emotional Body Movements in Autism Spectrum Disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8854267/
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