Meanings in Motion and Faces : Developmental Associations Between The Processing of Intention From Geometrical Animations And Gaze Detection Accuracy  

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Campbell, Ruth ; Skuse, David ; Jeyakuma, Lalitha ; Mittra, Cheytna ; Lawrence, Kate ; Mandy, William

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Development and Psychopathology vol. 18 no. 1 (2006), page 99-118.
Topik: Animation; geometrical animations; motion and faces; gaze detection accuracy; meanings; developmental; associations; intention
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Aspects of face processing, on the one hand, and theory of mind (ToM) tasks, on the other hand, show specific impairment in autism. We aimed to discover whether a correlation between tasks tapping these abilities was evident in typically developing children at two developmental stages. One hundred fifty - four normal children (6 – 8 years and 16 – 18 years) and 13 high - IQ autistic children (11 – 17 years) were tested on a range of face - processing and IQ tasks, and a ToM test based on the attribution of intentional movement to abstract shapes in a cartoon. By midchildhood, the ability accurately and spontaneously to infer the locus of attention of a face with direct or averted gaze was specifically associated with the ability to describe geometrical animations using mental state terms. Other face - processing and animation descriptions failed to show the association. Autistic adolescents were impaired at both gaze processing and ToM descriptions, using these tests. Mentalizing and gaze perception accuracy are associated in typically developing children and adolescents. The findings are congruent with the possibility that common neural circuitry underlies, at least in part, processing implicated in these tasks. They are also congruent with the possibility that autism may lie at one end of a developmental continuum with respect to these skills, and to the factor(s) underpinning them.

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