Attentional influences on neural processing of biological motion in typically developing children and those on the autism spectrum

ConclusionsTogether, these data suggest that individuals with ASD are able to discriminate, with explicit attention, biological from non-biological motion but demonstrate diminished automatic neural specificity for biological motion processing, which may have cascading implications for the development of higher-order social cognition.

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Source: Molecular Autism - July 18, 2022 Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: research