ArticleCognition2018
Decreased reward value of biological motion among individuals with autistic traits.
Article in Cognition, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Visual Preference for Biological Motion in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Trial
- Affective meaning from unlabeled biological motion: Associations with social-perceptual sensitivity.PloS one · 2026Article
- Toward a neuroaesthetics of interactions: Insights from dance on the aesthetics of individual and interacting bodies.iScience · 2025Review
- Individual abilities to estimate levels of movement synchrony predict action observation network activation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Evaluations of dyadic synchrony: observers' traits influence estimation and enjoyment of synchrony in mirror-game movements.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Effects of positive and negative social feedback on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing.NPJ science of learning · 2023Article
- The McNorm library: creating and validating a new library of emotionally expressive whole body dance movements.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Prefrontal circuits guiding social preference: Implications in autism spectrum disorder.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Review
- Motion or sociality? The cueing effect and temporal course of autistic traits on gaze-triggered attention.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- The Eyes Have It: Perception of Social Interaction Unfolds Through Pupil Dilation.Neuroscience bulletin · 2021Article
- Examining the value of body gestures in social reward contexts.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Ayres Theories of Autism and Sensory Integration Revisited: What Contemporary Neuroscience Has to Say.Brain sciences · 2019Review
- Seeing More Than Human: Autism and Anthropomorphic Theory of Mind.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
- Understanding Activation Patterns in Shared Circuits: Toward a Value Driven Model.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Review
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Abstract
The Social Motivation Theory posits that a reduced sensitivity to the value of social stimuli, specifically faces, can account for social impairments in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Research has demonstrated that typically developing (TD) individuals preferentially orient towards another type of salient social stimulus, namely biological motion. Individuals with ASD, however, do not show this preference. While the reward value of faces to both TD and ASD individuals has been well-established, the extent to which individuals from these populations also find human motion to be rewarding remains poorly understood. The present study investigated the value assigned to biological motion by TD participants in an effort task, and further examined whether these values differed among individuals with more autistic traits. The results suggest that TD participants value natural human motion more than rigid, machine-like motion or non-human control motion, but this preference is attenuated among individuals reporting more autistic traits. This study provides the first evidence to suggest that individuals with more autistic traits find a broader conceptualisation of social stimuli less rewarding compared to individuals with fewer autistic traits. By quantifying the social reward value of human motion, the present findings contribute an important piece to our understanding of social motivation in individuals with and without social impairments.
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