Autistic traits modulate mimicry of social but not nonsocial rewards

Autism Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 614-620

  Haffey, Anthony ^a   Press, Clare ^a,b   O'Connell, Garret ^a   Chakrabarti, Bhismadev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Empathy; Imitation; Mimicry; Nonsocial; Reward; Social

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

AUTISM; EMPATHY; IMITATION; MIMICRY; NONSOCIAL; REWARD; SOCIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890791615     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1323     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Baron-Cohen, S., & Wheelwright, S. (2004). The empathy quotient: An investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism, and normal sex differences. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34, 163-175.
2. Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Skinner, R., Martin, J., & Clubley, E. (2001). The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger syndrome/high-functioning autism, males and females, scientists and mathematicians. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31, 5-17.
3. Beall, P.M., Moody, E.J., McIntosh, D.N., Hepburn, S.L., & Reed, C.L. (2008). Rapid facial reactions to emotional facial expressions in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 101, 206-223.
4. Bird, G., Leighton, J., Press, C., & Heyes, C. (2007). Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disorders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274, 3027-3031.
5. Catmur, C., Walsh, V., & Heyes, C. (2009). Associative sequence learning: The role of experience in the development of imitation and the mirror system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364, 2369-2380.
6. Chakrabarti, B., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2006). Empathizing: Neurocognitive developmental mechanisms and individual differences. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 403-417.
7. Chevallier, C., Kohls, G., Troiani, V., Brodkin, E.S., & Schultz, R.T. (2012). The social motivation theory of autism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16, 231-239.
8. Dawson, G., Carver, L., Meltzoff, A.N., Panagiotides, H., McPartland, J., & Webb, S.J. (2002). Neural correlates of face and object recognition in young children with autism spectrum disorder, developmental delay, and typical development. Child Development, 73, 700-717.
9. Dawson, G., Webb, S.J., Wijsman, E., Schellenberg, G., Estes, A., etal. (2005). Neurocognitive and electrophysiological evidence of altered face processing in parents of children with autism: Implications for a model of abnormal development of social brain circuitry in autism. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 679-697.
10. Dinstein, I., Thomas, C., Humphreys, K., Minshew, N.J., Behrmann, M., & Heeger, D.J. (2008). Dysfunctional mirror neurons and Autism-A doubtful connection. London, UK: International Meeting for Autism Research.
11. Ferrari, P.F., & Gallese, V. (2007). Mirror neurons and intersubjectivity. Advances in Consciousness Research, 68, 73-88.
12. Ferrari, P.F., Visalberghi, E., Paukner, A., Fogassi, L., Ruggiero, A., & Suomi, S. (2006). Neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques. PLoS Biology, 4, e302.
13. Haber, S.N., & Knutson, B. (2009). The reward circuit: Linking primate anatomy and human imaging. Neuropsychopharmacology, 35, 4-26.
14. Harrison, N.A., Morgan, R., & Critchley, H.D. (2010). From facial mimicry to emotional empathy: A role for norepinephrine? Social Neuroscience, 5, 393-400.
15. Hermans, E.J., Putman, P., & Van Honk, J. (2006). Testosterone administration reduces empathetic behavior: A facial mimicry study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31, 859-866.
16. Hess, U., Philippot, P., & Blairy, S. (1999). Mimicry: Facts and fiction.
17. Heyes, C. (2001). Causes and consequences of imitation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 253-261.
18. Heyes, C. (2011). Automatic imitation. Psychological Bulletin, 137, 463-483.
19. Hobson, R.P., & Hobson, J.A. (2008). Dissociable aspects of imitation: A study in autism. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 101, 170-185.
20. Iacoboni, M. (2009). Imitation, empathy, and mirror neurons. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 653-670.
21. Keysers, C., Kaas, J.H., & Gazzola, V. (2010). Somatosensation in social perception. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 417-428.
22. Kohls, G., Peltzer, J., Schulte-Rüther, M., Kamp-Becker, I., Remschmidt, H., etal. (2011). Atypical brain responses to reward cues in autism as revealed by Event-related potentials. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 1523-1533.
23. Lang, P.J., Bradley, M.M., & Cuthbert, B.N. (1999). International affective picture system (IAPS): Instruction manual and affective ratings. Gainesville, Florida, USA: The Center for Research in Psychophysiology, University of Florida.
24. Likowski, K.U., Muehlberger, A., Seibt, B., Pauli, P., & Weyers, P. (2008). Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1065-1072.doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2007.10.007.
25. Maringer, M., Krumhuber, E.G., Fischer, A.H., & Niedenthal, P.M. (2011). Beyond smile dynamics: Mimicry and beliefs in judgments of smiles. Emotion, 11, 181-187.
26. Marsh, A.A., Kozak, M.N., Wegner, D.M., Reid, M.E., Henry, H.Y., & Blair, R.J.R. (2010). The neural substrates of action identification. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5, 392-403.
27. McIntosh, D.N., Reichmann Decker, A., Winkielman, P., & Wilbarger, J.L. (2006). When the social mirror breaks: Deficits in automatic, but not voluntary, mimicry of emotional facial expressions in autism. Developmental Science, 9, 295-302.
28. Minio-Paluello, I., Baron-Cohen, S., Avenanti, A., Walsh, V., & Aglioti, S.M. (2009). Absence of embodied empathy during pain observation in Asperger syndrome. Biological Psychiatry, 65, 55-62.
29. Press, C., Bird, G., Flach, R., & Heyes, C. (2005). Robotic movement elicits automatic imitation. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 632-640.
30. Press, C., Richardson, D., & Bird, G. (2010). Intact imitation of emotional facial actions in autism spectrum conditions. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3291-3297.
31. Robinson, E.B., Koenen, K.C., McCormick, M.C., Munir, K., Hallett, V., etal. (2011). Evidence that autistic traits show the same etiology in the general population and at the quantitative extremes (5%, 2.5%, and 1%). Archives of General Psychiatry, 68, 1113-1121.
32. Rogers, S.J., Hepburn, S.L., Stackhouse, T., & Wehner, E. (2003). Imitation performance in toddlers with autism and those with other developmental disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 763-781.
33. Schmitz, N., Rubia, K., Van Amelsvoort, T., Daly, E., Smith, A., & Murphy, D.G.M. (2008). Neural correlates of reward in autism. British Journal of Psychiatry, 192, 19-24.
34. Scott-Van Zeeland, A.A., Dapretto, M., Ghahremani, D.G., Poldrack, R.A., & Bookheimer, S.Y. (2010). Reward processing in autism. Autism Research, 3, 53-67.
35. Sims, T.B., Van Reekum, C.M., Johnstone, T., & Chakrabarti, B. (2012). How reward modulates mimicry: EMG evidence of greater facial mimicry of more rewarding happy faces. Psychophysiology, 49, 998-1004.
36. Sonnby-Borgström, M. (2002). Automatic mimicry reactions as related to differences in emotional empathy. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 43, 433-443.
37. Steiger, J.H. (1980). Tests for comparing elements of a correlation matrix. Psychological Bulletin, 87, 245-251.
38. Stel, M., van Baaren, R.B., Blascovich, J., van Dijk, E., McCall, C., etal. (2010). Effects of a priori liking on the elicitation of mimicry. Experimental Psychology, 57, 412-418.
39. Stel, M., van den Heuvel, C., & Smeets, R.C. (2008). Facial feedback mechanisms in autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 1250-1258.