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ERIC Number: EJ1042975
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Nov
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1362-3613
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Inversion Effects in the Perception of the Moving Human Form: A Comparison of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Adolescents
Cleary, Laura; Looney, Kathy; Brady, Nuala; Fitzgerald, Michael
Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, v18 n8 p943-952 Nov 2014
The "body inversion effect" refers to superior recognition of upright than inverted images of the human body and indicates typical configural processing. Previous research by Reed et al. using static images of the human body shows that people with autism fail to demonstrate this effect. Using a novel task in which adults, adolescents with autism, and typically developing adolescents judged whether walking stick figures--created from biological motion recordings and shown at seven orientations between 0° and 180°--were normal or distorted, this study shows clear effects of stimulus inversion. Reaction times and "inverse efficiency" increased with orientation for normal but not distorted walkers, and sensitivity declined with rotation from upright for all groups. Notably, the effect of stimulus inversion was equally detrimental to both groups of adolescents suggesting intact configural processing of the body in motion in autism spectrum disorder.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland
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