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Social perception and social abilities
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Social perception and social abilities
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relationships between action perception an autistic traits
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ETD_2265
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10002600001.ETD.000052940
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English
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theses
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Psychology
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Autism spectrum disorders
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Visual perception
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Social perception
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Vision scientists have historically motivated their studies of the perception of human movement by asserting that successful social behavior depends upon it. But does it? Five psychophysical studies were performed to address this question. To the extent that social capabilities are related to visual sensitivity to human motion, observers with deficits in social function should show selective decrements in their visual sensitivity to human movement. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairments in social function and autistic traits extend into the general population. Thus, the magnitude of observers’ autistic traits can serve as a measure of their social skills. The experiments reported here utilized a point-light target detection task in which observers reported whether a display contained coherent human, animal, or object movement. Overall, typical observers were consistently most sensitive to the presence of coherent human movement. In Experiments 1 – 3, both typically developing children and typically developed adults exhibited this pattern of performance. In contrast, observers with ASD and typical observers with increased autistic traits demonstrated equivalent sensitivity to human and object motion. Experiment 4 examined the specificity of this effect by testing relative sensitivity to animal motion. The results of this study indicated that typical adult observers were better able to detect the presence of coherent human motion relative to animal or object motion. Furthermore, autistic traits only correlated with detection of human motion. Experiment 5 tested whether a previously documented perceptual effect; namely, enhanced sensitivity to angry human motion, was related to social abilities. The results of this study indicated that enhanced detection of potentially threatening, angry, human movement decreased as the magnitude of an observer’s autistic traits increased. Overall, the results of these studies support a tight coupling of laboratory studies of visual sensitivity to the presence of coherent human movement and social behavior outside of the laboratory. Furthermore, these studies illustrate the promise of measuring autistic traits along a continuum of typical and atypical observers to study social behavior and its relation to performance on psychophysical tasks.
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xii, 150 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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by Martha Danielle Kaiser
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Kaiser
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Martha Danielle
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1980-
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Delgado
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Mauricio
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Kent
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Maggie
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Van de Walle
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Gretchen
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T35Q4W6V
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ETD doctoral
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Kaiser
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2009-11-30 12:48:51
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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