Emotions and voluntary action: What link in children with autism?

Vernazza-Martin, Sylvie; Longuet, S.; Chamot, Jean-Marc; Orêve, Marie-Joëlle

doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2013.05.049

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“…Several comorbid problems are frequently reported in ASD (Lai et al, 2014), including hyperactivity, inattention as well as motor abnormalities, such as motor delay, deficits in coordination and movement planning. Atypical movement in ASD may be regulated by emotion (Trevarthen and Delafield-Butt, 2013; Vernazza-Martin et al, 2013). Future studies investigating these comorbid features in relation to locomotor activity and emotional regulation in daily life might help elucidate the neurophysiological mechanisms that may underlie these features in ASD.…”

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confidence: 99%

Negatively Skewed Locomotor Activity Is Related to Autistic Traits and Behavioral Problems in Typically Developing Children and Those With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Ogino

Takahashi

Nakamura

et al. 2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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An important objective for researchers and clinicians is to gain a better understanding of the factors that underlie autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). It is possible that investigating objective and quantitative behavioral phenotypes and their relationship to clinical characteristics, such as autistic traits and other emotional/behavioral problems, might facilitate this process. Given this, in the current study we examined the link between locomotor dynamics and clinical characteristics, including autistic traits and emotional/behavioral problems, in children with ASD (n = 14) and typically developing (TD) children (n = 13). A watch-type actigraph was used to continuously measure locomotor activity which was assessed in terms of mean activity levels and the skewness of activity. Parents assessed quantitative autistic traits using the Japanese version of the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) and emotional and behavioral problems using the Japanese version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Results showed that among all children, all-day activity was more negatively skewed, suggesting sporadic large all-day “troughs” in activity and was significantly correlated with the SRS social awareness subscale score (ρ = −0.446, p = 0.038). In addition, the more negatively skewed daytime locomotor activity was associated with the SDQ Hyperactivity Inattention subscale score (ρ = −0.493, p = 0.020). The results of this study indicate that investigating locomotor dynamics may provide one way to increase understanding of the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the clinical characteristics of ASD.

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Negatively Skewed Locomotor Activity Is Related to Autistic Traits and Behavioral Problems in Typically Developing Children and Those With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Ogino

Takahashi

Nakamura

et al. 2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Viviani, 2013). Similarly, “voluntary” and “automatic” actions are clearly distinguished in clinical literature, for conditions ranging from deafness (Bottari, Valsecchi, & Pavani, 2012), to Parkinson’s disease (D’Ostilio, Cremers, Delvaux, Sadzot, & Garraux, 2013; van Stockum, MacAskill, & Anderson, 2012; van Stockum, MacAskill, Myall, & Anderson, 2013; Vervoort et al, 2013), Huntington’s disease (Patel, Jankovic, Hood, Jeter, & Sereno, 2012), autism (Vernazza-Martin, Longuet, Chamot, & Orève, 2013), and mild traumatic brain injury (Zhang, Red, Lin, Patel, & Sereno, 2013).…”

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“…This dichotomy between "automatic" and "voluntary" processes remains embedded in many contemporary articles across a variety of disciplines-for example, in spatial attention (Barbot, Landy, & Carrasco, 2012;Chica, Bartolomeo, & Lupiáñez, 2013;Ibos, Duhamel, & Ben Hamed, 2013;Macaluso & Doricchi, 2013;McAuliffe, Johnson, Weaver, Deller-Quinn, & Hansen, 2013;Mysore & Knudsen, 2013; D. T. Smith, Schenk, & Rorden, 2012), temporal attention (Lawrence & Klein, 2013), cognition (Lifshitz, Bonn, Fischer, Kashem, & Raz, 2013), motor cueing (Martín-Arévalo, Kingstone, & Lupiáñez, 2013), reading (Feng, 2012), perception (Pfister, Heinemann, Kiesel, Thomaschke, & Janczyk, 2012;Spence & Deroy, 2013), social cognition/perception (Laidlaw, Risko, & Kingstone, 2012), or emotion regulation (R. Viviani, 2013). Similarly, "voluntary" and "automatic" actions are clearly distinguished in clinical literature, for conditions ranging from deafness (Bottari, Valsecchi, & Pavani, 2012), to Parkinson's disease (D'Ostilio, Cremers, Delvaux, Sadzot, & Garraux, 2013;van Stockum, MacAskill, & Anderson, 2012;van Stockum, Ma-cAskill, Myall, & Anderson, 2013;Vervoort et al, 2013), Huntington's disease (Patel, Jankovic, Hood, Jeter, & Sereno, 2012), autism (Vernazza-Martin, Longuet, Chamot, & Orève, 2013), and mild traumatic brain injury (Zhang, Red, Lin, Patel, & Sereno, 2013).…”

Section: Understanding Automaticity and Volitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Parkinson's disease (D'Ostilio, Cremers, Delvaux, Sadzot, & Garraux, 2013;van Stockum, MacAskill, & Anderson, 2012;van Stockum, MacAskill, Myall, & Anderson, 2013;Vervoort et al, 2013), Huntington's disease (Patel, Jankovic, Hood, Jeter, & Sereno, 2012), autism (Vernazza-Martin, Longuet, Chamot, & Orève, 2013) and mild traumatic brain injury (Zhang, Red, Lin, Patel, & Sereno, 2013).…”

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Saccade-like behavior in the fast-phases of optokinetic nystagmus: An illustration of the emergence of volitional actions from automatic reflexes.

Harrison

Freeman

Sumner

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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As a potential exemplar for understanding how volitional actions emerged from reflexes, we studied the relationship between an ancient reflexive gaze stabilisation mechanism (optokinetic nystagmus) and purposeful eye movements (saccades) that target an object.Traditionally these have been considered distinct (except in the kinematics of their execution) and studied independently. We find that the fast-phases of optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) clearly show properties associated with saccade planning: (1) They are characteristically delayed by irrelevant distractors in an indistinguishable way to saccades (the saccadic inhibition effect); (2) horizontal OKN fast-phases produce curvature in vertical targeting saccades, just like a competing saccade plan. Thus we argue that the saccade planning network plays a role in the production of OKN fast-phases, and question the need for a strict distinction between eye movements that appear to be automatic or volitional. We discuss whether our understanding might benefit from shifting perspective and considering the entire 'saccade' system to have developed from an increasingly sophisticated OKN system.

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When locomotion is used to interact with the environment: investigation of the link between emotions and the twofold goal-directed locomotion in humans

Vernazza-Martin

Longuet²,

Damry

et al. 2015

Exp Brain Res

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Walking as a means to interact with the environment has a twofold goal: body displacement (intermediate goal) and the future action on the environment (final representational goal). This involves different processes that plan, program, and control goal-directed locomotion linked to motivation as an "emotional state," which leads to achieving this twofold goal. The aim of the present study was to determine whether emotional valence associated with the final representational goal influences these processes or whether they depend more on the emotional valence associated with the intermediate goal in young adults. Twenty subjects, aged 18-35 years, were instructed to erase an emotional picture that appeared on a wall as soon as they saw it. They had to press a stop button located 5 m in front of them with their right hand. Their gait was analyzed using a force platform and the Vicon system. The main results suggest that the emotional valence of the intermediate goal has the greatest effect on the processes that organize and modulate goal-directed locomotion. A positive valence facilitates cognitive processes involved in the temporal organization of locomotion. A negative valence disturbs the cognitive processes involved in the spatial organization of the locomotion and online motor control, leading to a deviating trajectory and a final body position that is more distant from the stop button. These results are discussed in line with the motivational direction hypothesis and with the affective meaning of the intended response goal.

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Emotions and voluntary action: What link in children with autism?

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

Negatively Skewed Locomotor Activity Is Related to Autistic Traits and Behavioral Problems in Typically Developing Children and Those With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Negatively Skewed Locomotor Activity Is Related to Autistic Traits and Behavioral Problems in Typically Developing Children and Those With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Saccade-like behavior in the fast-phases of optokinetic nystagmus: An illustration of the emergence of volitional actions from automatic reflexes.

When locomotion is used to interact with the environment: investigation of the link between emotions and the twofold goal-directed locomotion in humans

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