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| Research article summary (published 27 Feb 2003): |
Visual recognition of biological motion is impaired in children with autism.
Full Abstract
Autistic children and typically developing control children were tested on two visual tasks, one involving grouping of small line elements into a global figure and the other involving perception of human activity portrayed in point-light animations. Performance of the two groups was equivalent on the figure task, but autistic children were significantly impaired on the biological motion task. This latter deficit may be related to the impaired social skills characteristic of autism, and we speculate that this deficit may implicate abnormalities in brain areas mediating perception of human movement.
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Author information
Author/s: Blake, Randolph (R); Turner, Lauren M (LM); Smoski, Moria J (MJ); Pozdol, Stacie L (SL); Stone, Wendy L (WL);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37201, USA. randolph.blake(-atsign-)vanderbilt.edu
Grants: EY07760 (Agency:United States NEI) ; T3207226 (Agency:United States PHS)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS (Psychol Sci), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 14 (issue 2) : pp 151-7
Dates: Created 2003/03/28; Completed 2003/06/06; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 12661677, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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