SynthesisMolecular autism2019
Biological motion perception in autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Emotional Prosody Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Pooled it
- A meta-analytic review of gaze cueing across the autism trait continuum.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of atypical visual attention towards non-social stimuli in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Pooled it
- Motor imagery in autism: a systematic review.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Association between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and vision problems. A systematic review and meta-analysis.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Distinct Biological Motion Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Pooled it
- New Technologies as Promising Tools for Assessing Facial Emotion Expressions Impairments in ASD: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Anomalous Perception of Biological Motion in Autism: A Conceptual Review and Meta-Analysis.Scientific reports · 2020Pooled it
- The Cost of Social Integration: Distinct Neural Inefficiency in Autistic Children Underlies Symptom Severity.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Advantages of combining multiple eye-tracking paradigms for distinguishing young autistic from non-autistic children.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- Brain idiosyncrasy during biological-motion perception is amplified in autistic individuals with intellectual impairment.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2026Article
- Altered neural oscillatory dynamics underlie reduced anticipatory schema use during event segmentation in adolescents with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum disorder.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026Article
- Is the Association Between Emotion Recognition and Social Functioning Mediated by Cognitive Empathy and Emotional Language? An Examination of School-Aged Autistic Children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Atypical Time to Contact Estimation in Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Speed-accuracy trade-offs in action perception, motor imagery, and execution of hand movements in autistic and non-autistic adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Do autistic individuals show atypical performance in probabilistic learning? A comparison of cue-number, predictive strength, and prediction error.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Atypical audio-visual neural synchrony and speech processing in early autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Article
- The modular mind and psychiatry: toward clinical integration with a focus on self-disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Individual abilities to estimate levels of movement synchrony predict action observation network activation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Biological motion, namely the movement of others, conveys information that allows the identification of affective states and intentions. This makes it an important avenue of research in autism spectrum disorder where social functioning is one of the main areas of difficulty. We aimed to create a quantitative summary of previous findings and investigate potential factors, which could explain the variable results found in the literature investigating biological motion perception in autism. Methods: A search from five electronic databases yielded 52 papers eligible for a quantitative summarisation, including behavioural, eye-tracking, electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. Results: Using a three-level random effects meta-analytic approach, we found that individuals with autism generally showed decreased performance in perception and interpretation of biological motion. Results additionally suggest decreased performance when higher order information, such as emotion, is required. Moreover, with the increase of age, the difference between autistic and neurotypical individuals decreases, with children showing the largest effect size overall. Conclusion: We highlight the need for methodological standards and clear distinctions between the age groups and paradigms utilised when trying to interpret differences between the two populations.
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