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Kuzmanovic, Bojana, Schilbach, Leonhard ORCID: 0000-0001-5547-8309, Georgescu, Alexandra L., Kockler, Hanna, Santos, Natacha S., Shah, N. Jon ORCID: 0000-0002-8151-6169, Bente, Gary, Fink, Gereon R. ORCID: 0000-0002-8230-1856 and Vogeley, Kai (2014). Dissociating animacy processing in high-functioning autism: Neural correlates of stimulus properties and subjective ratings. Soc. Neurosci., 9 (3). S. 309 - 326. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1747-0927

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Abstract

When movements indicate meaningful actions, even nonbiological objects induce the impression of having a mind or animacy. This basic social ability was investigated in adults with high-functioning autism (HFA, n=13, and matched controls, n=13) by systematically varying motion properties of simple geometric shapes. Critically, trial-by-trial variations of (1) motion complexity of stimuli, and of (2) participants' individual animacy ratings were separately correlated with neural activity to dissociate cognitive strategies relying more closely on stimulus analysis vs. subjective experience. Increasing motion complexity did not yield any significant group differences, and in both groups, it correlated with neural activity in regions involved in perceptual and evaluative processing, including the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), superior temporal gyrus (STG) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). In contrast, although there were no significant behavioral differences between the groups, increasing animacy ratings correlated with neural activity in the insula, STG, amygdala, dorsal mPFC and PCC more strongly in controls than in HFA. These results indicate that in HFA the evaluation of stimulus properties cuing for animacy is intact, while increasing subjective ratings do not seem to be robustly related to social processing, including spontaneous mental state inferences and experience of salience.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kuzmanovic, Bojana UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schilbach, Leonhard UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-8309 UNSPECIFIED Georgescu, Alexandra L. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kockler, Hanna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Santos, Natacha S. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Shah, N. Jon UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-8151-6169 UNSPECIFIED Bente, Gary UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fink, Gereon R. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-8230-1856 UNSPECIFIED Vogeley, Kai UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-438568
DOI:	10.1080/17470919.2014.886618
Journal or Publication Title:	Soc. Neurosci.
Volume:	9
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 309 - 326
Date:	2014
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1747-0927
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ASPERGER-SYNDROME; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL COGNITION; MENTAL STATES; MIND; ATTRIBUTION; PERCEPTION; BRAIN; INDIVIDUALS; ACTIVATION Multiple languages Neurosciences; Psychology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/43856