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Autism Res ; 16(9): 1799-1810, 2023 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37534381

RESUMO

Observing and voluntarily imitating the biological kinematics displayed by a model underpins the acquisition of new motor skills via sensorimotor processes linking perception with action. Differences in voluntary imitation in autism could be related to sensorimotor processing activity during action-observation of biological motion, as well as how sensorimotor integration processing occurs across imitation attempts. Using an observational practice protocol, which minimized the active contribution of the peripheral sensorimotor system, we examined the contribution of sensorimotor processing during action-observation. The data showed that autistic participants imitated both the temporal duration and atypical kinematic profile of the observed movement with a similar level of accuracy as neurotypical participants. These findings suggest the lower-level perception-action processes responsible for encoding biological kinematics during the action-observation phase of imitation are operational in autism. As there was no task-specific engagement of the peripheral sensorimotor system during observational practice, imitation difficulties in autism are most likely underpinned by sensorimotor integration issues related to the processing of efferent and (re)afferent sensorimotor information during trial-to-trial motor execution.


Assuntos
Transtorno do Espectro Autista , Transtorno Autístico , Humanos , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Aprendizagem , Desempenho Psicomotor , Comportamento Imitativo
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Curr Biol ; 33(13): 2717-2727.e6, 2023 07 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37339628

RESUMO

The ability to anticipate what others will do next is crucial for navigating social, interactive environments. Here, we develop an experimental and analytical framework to measure the implicit readout of prospective intention information from movement kinematics. Using a primed action categorization task, we first demonstrate implicit access to intention information by establishing a novel form of priming, which we term kinematic priming: subtle differences in movement kinematics prime action prediction. Next, using data collected from the same participants in a forced-choice intention discrimination task 1 h later, we quantify single-trial intention readout-the amount of intention information read by individual perceivers in individual kinematic primes-and assess whether it can be used to predict the amount of kinematic priming. We demonstrate that the amount of kinematic priming, as indexed by both response times (RTs) and initial fixations to a given probe, is directly proportional to the amount of intention information read by the individual perceiver at the single-trial level. These results demonstrate that human perceivers have rapid, implicit access to intention information encoded in movement kinematics and highlight the potential of our approach to reveal the computations that permit the readout of this information with single-subject, single-trial resolution.


Assuntos
Intenção , Movimento , Humanos , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Estudos Prospectivos , Tempo de Reação
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Behav Brain Sci ; 44: e124, 2021 09 30.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34588086

RESUMO

Why do we run toward people we love, but only walk toward others? One reason is to let them know we love them. In this commentary, we elaborate on how subjective utility information encoded in vigor is read out by others. We consider the potential implications for understanding and modeling the link between movements and decisions in social environments.


Assuntos
Movimento , Análise Custo-Benefício , Humanos
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Curr Biol ; 30(23): 4594-4605.e7, 2020 12 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32976808

RESUMO

Although it is well established that fronto-parietal regions are active during action observation, whether they play a causal role in the ability to infer others' intentions from visual kinematics remains undetermined. In the experiments reported here, we combined offline continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) with computational modeling to reveal and causally probe single-trial computations in the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). Participants received cTBS over the left anterior IPL and the left IFG pars orbitalis in separate sessions before completing an intention discrimination task (discriminate intention of observed reach-to-grasp acts) or a kinematic discrimination task unrelated to intention (discriminate peak wrist height of the same acts). We targeted intention-sensitive regions whose fMRI activity, recorded when observing the same reach-to-grasp acts, could accurately discriminate intention. We found that transient disruption of activity of the left IPL, but not the IFG, impaired the observer's ability to attribute intention to action. Kinematic discrimination unrelated to intention, in contrast, was largely unaffected. Computational analyses of how encoding (mapping of intention to movement kinematics) and readout (mapping of kinematics to intention choices) intersect at the single-trial level revealed that IPL cTBS did not diminish the overall sensitivity of intention readout to movement kinematics. Rather, it selectively misaligned intention readout with respect to encoding, deteriorating mapping from informative kinematic features to intention choices. These results provide causal evidence of how the left anterior IPL computes mapping from kinematics to intentions.


Assuntos
Discriminação Psicológica/fisiologia , Intenção , Lobo Parietal/fisiologia , Adulto , Fenômenos Biomecânicos/fisiologia , Mapeamento Encefálico , Feminino , Força da Mão/fisiologia , Humanos , Modelos Logísticos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Modelos Neurológicos , Movimento/fisiologia , Lobo Parietal/diagnóstico por imagem , Córtex Pré-Frontal/diagnóstico por imagem , Córtex Pré-Frontal/fisiologia , Ritmo Teta/fisiologia , Estimulação Magnética Transcraniana , Adulto Jovem
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 106(49): 20930-5, 2009 Dec 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19934051

RESUMO

It is generally accepted that young worker bees (Apis mellifera L.) are highly attracted to queen mandibular pheromone (QMP). Our results challenge this widely held view. We have found that unless young workers are exposed to QMP early in adult life, they, like foragers, avoid contact with this pheromone. Our data indicate that responses to QMP are regulated peripherally, at the level of the antennal sensory neurons, and that a window of opportunity exists in which QMP can alter a young bee's response to this critically important pheromone. Exposing young bees to QMP from the time of adult emergence reduces expression in the antennae of the D1-like dopamine receptor gene, Amdop1. Levels of Amdop3 transcript, on the other hand, and of the octopamine receptor gene Amoa1, are significantly higher in the antennae of bees strongly attracted to QMP than in bees showing no attraction to this pheromone. A decline in QMP attraction with age is accompanied by a fall in expression in worker antennae of the D2-like dopamine receptor, AmDOP3, a receptor that is selectively activated by QMP. Taken together, our findings suggest that QMP's actions peripherally not only suppress avoidance behavior, but also enhance attraction to QMP, thereby facilitating attendance of the queen.


Assuntos
Abelhas/efeitos dos fármacos , Abelhas/fisiologia , Comportamento Animal/efeitos dos fármacos , Mandíbula/metabolismo , Feromônios/farmacologia , Células Receptoras Sensoriais/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Receptoras Sensoriais/fisiologia , Envelhecimento/efeitos dos fármacos , Envelhecimento/genética , Animais , Comportamento Alimentar/efeitos dos fármacos , Feminino , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Proteínas de Insetos/genética , Proteínas de Insetos/metabolismo , Atividade Motora/efeitos dos fármacos
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