Heritable aspects of biological motion perception and its covariation with autistic traits.

ABSTRACT: The ability to detect biological motion (BM) and decipher the meaning therein is essential to human survival and social interaction. However, at the individual level, we are not equally equipped with this ability. In particular, impaired BM perception and abnormal neural responses to BM have been observed in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by devastating social deficits. Here, we examined the underlying sources of individual differences in two abilities fundamental to BM perception (i.e., the abilities to process local kinematic and global configurational information of BM) and explored whether BM perception shares a common genetic origin with autistic traits. Using the classical twin method, we found reliable genetic influences

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5828593 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature