Do triangles play tricks? Attribution of mental states to animated shapes in normal and abnormal development

By F. Abell, F. Happé, Uta Frith. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Developmental deficits in social perception in autism: the role of the amygdala and fusiform face area (2005, background): “Several studies have now shown that persons with autism do not naturally apply a social template to interpret these types of animations (Abell et al., 2000; Bowler and Thommen, 2000; Klin, 2000).”
Impaired self-awareness and theory of mind: An fMRI study of mentalizing in alexithymia (2006, neutral): “We conducted one fMRI session with each subject to assess the neural network associated with mentalizing, using eight silent visual animations for ToM (Abell et al., 2000; Castelli et al., 2000, 2002; Ohnishi et al., 2004; http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/dev_group/ research.htm).”
9 Perceiving Animacy and Intentionality: Visual Processing or Higher-Level Judgment? (2013, background): “This has the great advantage of resulting in especially rich and cinematic 'stories' told by the motions of the shapes, evoking mental states such as fear, mocking, and coaxing (e.g. Abell et al., 2000; Castelli et al., 2000; Heider and Simmel, 1944).”
Accurate judgments of intention from motion cues alone: A cross-cultural study (2005, methodology): “…include studying how autism, schizophrenia, and other conditions that impair social cognition may affect intention-from-motion judgments (e.g., Abell et al., 2000), and using brain imaging methods to identify cortical areas responsible for mapping between the perceptual and social domains…”
Virtual Reality Social Cognition Training for Young Adults with High-Functioning Autism (2012, methodology): “Another ToM measure, Triangles, also known as the Social Perception Task (Abell et al. 2000) was additionally selected.”
Autism, Asperger syndrome and brain mechanisms for the attribution of mental states to animated shapes. (2002, result): “Twelve scans were acquired per subject.”