Perceptual discrimination of action formidableness and friendliness and the impact of autistic traits.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
26 Oct 2024
26 Oct 2024
Historique:
received:
28
07
2023
accepted:
14
10
2024
medline:
27
10
2024
pubmed:
27
10
2024
entrez:
27
10
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The ability to determine whether the actions of other individuals are friendly or formidable are key decisions we need to make to successfully navigate our complex social environment. In this study we measured perceptual performance when discriminating actions that vary in their friendliness or formidableness, and whether performance was related to the autistic traits of individuals. To do this, we developed an action morphing method to generate novel actions that lied along the action quality dimensions of formidableness and friendliness. In Experiment 1 we show that actions that vary along the formidableness or friendliness continua were rated as varying monotonically along the respective quality. In Experiment 2 we measured the ability of individuals with different levels of autistic traits to discriminate action formidableness and friendliness using adaptive 2-AFC procedures. We found considerable variation in perceptual thresholds when discriminating action formidableness (~ 540% interindividual variation) or friendliness (~ 1100% interindividual variation). Importantly, we found no evidence that autistic traits influenced perceptual discrimination of these action qualities. These results confirm that sensory enhancements with autistic traits are limited to lower level stimuli, and suggest that the perceptual processing of these complex social signals are not affected by autistic traits.
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pubmed: 39462021
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-76488-6
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-76488-6
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Journal Article
Langues
eng
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