Social perception of animacy: Preferential attentional orienting to animals links with autistic traits

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105900

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	Social perception of animacy: Preferential attentional orienting to animals links with autistic traits
	Yang, Geqing 1,2; Wang, Ying 1,2; Jiang, Yi 1,2
通讯作者	Wang, Ying(wangying@psych.ac.cn)
摘要	Animate cues enjoy priority in attentional processes as they carry survival-relevant information and herald social interaction. Whether and in what way such an attention effect is associated with more general aspects of social cognition remains largely unexplored. Here we investigated whether the attentional preference for animals varies with observers' autistic traits - an indicator of autism-like characteristics in general populations related to one's social cognitive abilities. Using the dot-probe paradigm, we found that animal cues can rapidly and persistently recruit preferential attention over inanimate ones in observers with relatively low, but not high, autistic traits, as measured by Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ). Moreover, individual AQ scores were negatively correlated with the attentional bias toward animals, especially at the early orienting stage. These results were not simply due to low-level visual factors, as inverted or phase-scrambled pictures did not yield a similar pattern. Our findings demonstrate an automatic and enduring attentional bias beneficial to both rapid detection and continuous monitoring of animals and reveal its link with autistic traits, highlighting the critical role of animacy perception in the architecture of social cognition.
关键词	Attention bias Time course Animacy Animals Autistic traits
	2024-10-01
语种	英语
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105900
发表期刊	COGNITION
ISSN	0010-0277
卷号	251 页码:9
收录类别	SCI
资助项目	Ministry of Science and Technology of China[2021ZD0203800] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[32171059] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31830037] ; Strategic Priority Research Program[XDB32010300] ; Interdisciplinary Innovation Team[JCTD-2021-06] ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Scientific Foundation of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences[E2CX4325CX] ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
出版者	ELSEVIER
WOS关键词	HIGH-FUNCTIONING CHILDREN ; BIOLOGICAL-MOTION ; TIME-COURSE ; FACES ; PICTURES ; RECOGNITION ; INFORMATION ; INTACT ; AGENTS ; BIAS
WOS研究方向	Psychology
WOS类目	Psychology, Experimental
WOS记录号	WOS:001278950000001
资助机构	Ministry of Science and Technology of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Strategic Priority Research Program ; Interdisciplinary Innovation Team ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Scientific Foundation of Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
引用统计
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/49170
通讯作者	Wang, Ying
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, State Key Lab Brain & Cognit Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Geqing,Wang, Ying,Jiang, Yi. Social perception of animacy: Preferential attentional orienting to animals links with autistic traits[J]. COGNITION,2024,251:9.
APA	Yang, Geqing,Wang, Ying,&Jiang, Yi.(2024).Social perception of animacy: Preferential attentional orienting to animals links with autistic traits.COGNITION,251,9.
MLA	Yang, Geqing,et al."Social perception of animacy: Preferential attentional orienting to animals links with autistic traits".COGNITION 251(2024):9.