Interpersonal predictive coding, not action perception, is impaired in autism. von der Lühe, T., Manera, V., Barisic, I., Becchio, C., Vogeley, K., & Schilbach, L. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1693):20150373, May, 2016. ZSCC: 0000048 Publisher: Royal Society; http://web.archive.org/web/20200517111525/https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2015.0373
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This study was conducted to examine interpersonal predictive coding in individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA). Healthy and HFA participants observed point-light displays of two agents (A and B) performing separate actions. In the ‘communicative’ condition, the action performed by agent B responded to a communicative gesture performed by agent A. In the ‘individual’ condition, agent A's communicative action was substituted by a non-communicative action. Using a simultaneous masking-detection task, we demonstrate that observing agent A's communicative gesture enhanced visual discrimination of agent B for healthy controls, but not for participants with HFA. These results were not explained by differences in attentional factors as measured via eye-tracking, or by differences in the recognition of the point-light actions employed. Our findings, therefore, suggest that individuals with HFA are impaired in the use of social information to predict others' actions and provide behavioural evidence that such deficits could be closely related to impairments of predictive coding.
@article{von_der_luhe_interpersonal_2016,
	title = {Interpersonal predictive coding, not action perception, is impaired in autism},
	volume = {371},
	url = {10.1098/rstb.2015.0373},
	doi = {10.1098/rstb.2015.0373},
	abstract = {This study was conducted to examine interpersonal predictive coding in individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA). Healthy and HFA participants observed point-light displays of two agents (A and B) performing separate actions. In the ‘communicative’ condition, the action performed by agent B responded to a communicative gesture performed by agent A. In the ‘individual’ condition, agent A's communicative action was substituted by a non-communicative action. Using a simultaneous masking-detection task, we demonstrate that observing agent A's communicative gesture enhanced visual discrimination of agent B for healthy controls, but not for participants with HFA. These results were not explained by differences in attentional factors as measured via eye-tracking, or by differences in the recognition of the point-light actions employed. Our findings, therefore, suggest that individuals with HFA are impaired in the use of social information to predict others' actions and provide behavioural evidence that such deficits could be closely related to impairments of predictive coding.},
	number = {1693},
	urldate = {2020-05-17},
	journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
	author = {von der Lühe, T. and Manera, V. and Barisic, I. and Becchio, C. and Vogeley, K. and Schilbach, L.},
	month = may,
	year = {2016},
	note = {ZSCC: 0000048 
Publisher: Royal Society; http://web.archive.org/web/20200517111525/https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2015.0373},
	pages = {20150373},
}

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