Heritable aspects of biological motion perception and its covariation with autistic traits [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]

The ability to detect biological motion (BM) and decipher the meaning therein is essential to human survival and social interaction. However, at the individual level, we are not equally equipped with this ability. In particular, impaired BM perception and abnormal neural responses to BM have been observed in autism spectrum...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - February 20, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Ying Wang, Li Wang, Qian Xu, Dong Liu, Lihong Chen, Nikolaus F. Troje, Sheng He, Yi Jiang Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research