dc.contributor.author | Buckingham, Gavin | |
dc.contributor.author | Michelakakis, EE | |
dc.contributor.author | Rajendran, G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-11T10:29:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-28 | |
dc.description.abstract | Autism is characterised by a range of perceptual and sensorimotor deficits, which might be related to abnormalities in how autistic individuals use prior knowledge. We investigated this proposition in a large non-clinical population in the context of the size-weight illusion, where individual’s expectations about object weight influence their perceptions of heaviness and fingertip forces. Although there was no relationship between autistic traits and the magnitude of the illusion, we observed an inverse relationship between AQ scores and how expectations influenced initial fingertip force application. These findings provide a novel dissociation between how perceptual and sensorimotor processes are related to autistic traits, and suggest that, autistic traits might explain some of the variance surrounding how individuals grip and lift objects. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | First online: 28 January 2016 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10803-016-2701-0 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19704 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2016. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use,distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were
made. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Autistic quotient | en_GB |
dc.subject | Grip force | en_GB |
dc.subject | Object lifting | en_GB |
dc.subject | Size-weight illusion | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sensorimotor prediction | en_GB |
dc.title | The Influence of Prior Knowledge on Perception and Action: Relationships to Autistic Traits | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-11T10:29:30Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0162-3257 | |
dc.description | Published online | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1573-3432 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | en_GB |