Social perception in children born at very low birthweight and its relationship with social/behavioral outcomes

Williamson, Kathryn; Jakobson, Lorna S.

doi:10.1111/jcpp.12210

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“…As we have previously reported (Williamson & Jakobson, 2014a , 2014b ), preterm children in our sample were rated by their parents as showing more autistic-like traits than full-term peers, F (1, 66) = 5.22, p = .03, η 2 = .07; M preterm = 59.8, SEM = 2.2, range = 32–89; M full-term = 52.7, SEM = 2.1, range = 37–78. There was also a trend for more preterm than full-term children to score above the cutoff of 66 (11 vs. 5, respectively), Z = –1.84, p = .066.…”

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“…Evidence that these four operations are carried out relatively independently came from the observations that intercorrelations between scores on the different tests in the battery were not significant. The fact that the same preterm children tested here also show impairments on tasks requiring the analysis and interpretation of “animate motion” displays involving moving triangles (Williamson & Jakobson, 2014b ) and emotions conveyed by nonverbal cues from face and body movements (Williamson & Jakobson, 2014a ) supports the view that they experience generalized difficulties processing movements characteristic of living entities.…”

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“…Realistic “life motion” perception was examined using the Child and Adolescent Social Perception measure (CASP; Magill-Evans, Koning, Cameron-Sadava, & Manyk, 1995 ), which requires the visual analysis of videotaped vignettes depicting social scenes involving two or more people. Relative to full-term peers, preterm children showed impaired ability to identify the emotions of characters depicted in these vignettes and to use nonverbal cues from face and body movements to make these determinations (Williamson & Jakobson, 2014a ). In the second study, we tested the same children on the Happé-Frith animated triangles task (Abell, Happé, & Frith, 2000 ).…”

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“…In the present report, we describe the results of a third experiment that involved the same preterm and full-term children who took part in the work described above (Williamson & Jakobson, 2014a , 2014b ). Our primary goal here was to explore the children’s ability to process the movements of living beings in more detail.…”

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Local and global aspects of biological motion perception in children born at very low birth weight

Williamson

Jakobson

Saunders

et al. 2014

Child Neuropsychology

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Biological motion perception can be assessed using a variety of tasks. In the present study, 8- to 11-year-old children born prematurely at very low birth weight (<1500 g) and matched, full-term controls completed tasks that required the extraction of local motion cues, the ability to perceptually group these cues to extract information about body structure, and the ability to carry out higher order processes required for action recognition and person identification. Preterm children exhibited difficulties in all 4 aspects of biological motion perception. However, intercorrelations between test scores were weak in both full-term and preterm children—a finding that supports the view that these processes are relatively independent. Preterm children also displayed more autistic-like traits than full-term peers. In preterm (but not full-term) children, these traits were negatively correlated with performance in the task requiring structure-from-motion processing, r(30) = −.36, p < .05), but positively correlated with the ability to extract identity, r(30) = .45, p < .05). These findings extend previous reports of vulnerability in systems involved in processing dynamic cues in preterm children and suggest that a core deficit in social perception/cognition may contribute to the development of the social and behavioral difficulties even in members of this population who are functioning within the normal range intellectually. The results could inform the development of screening, diagnostic, and intervention tools.

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Local and global aspects of biological motion perception in children born at very low birth weight

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Saunders

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Child Neuropsychology

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“…It is possible that the data presented here reflect the early emergence of impaired social function, which has been described in children with very low birth weight (<1,500 g) despite normal IQ (Williamson & Jakobson, 2014), or they may herald atypical social traits that are reported in adults born preterm who do not reach diagnostic criteria for ASD (Pyh€ al€ a et al, 2014). Such traits include difficulties in processing biological motion, facial expressions or social perception (Pavlova, Sokolov, Birbaumer, & KragelohMann, 2006;Wocadlo & Rieger, 2006;Indredavik, Vik, Skranes, & Brubakk, 2008;Taylor, Jakobson, Maurer, & Lewis, 2009).…”

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Preterm birth is associated with atypical social orienting in infancy detected using eye tracking

Telford

Fletcher‐Watson

Gillespie‐Smith

et al. 2016

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background: Preterm birth is closely associated with neurocognitive impairment in childhood including increased risk for social difficulties. Eye tracking objectively assesses eye-gaze behaviour in response to visual stimuli, which permits inference about underlying cognitive processes. We tested the hypothesis that social orienting in infancy is altered by preterm birth. Methods: Fifty preterm infants with mean (range) gestational age (GA) at birth of 29 +1 (23 +2 -33 +0 ) weeks and 50 term infants with mean (range) GA at birth 40 +2 (37 +0 -42 +3 ) weeks underwent eye tracking at median age of 7 months. Infants were presented with three categories of social stimuli of increasing complexity. Time to first fixate (TFF) and looking time (LT) on areas of interest (AoIs) were recorded using remote eye tracking. Results: Preterm infants consistently fixated for a shorter time on social content than term infants across all three tasks: face-scanning (fixation to eyes minus mouth 0.61s vs. 1.47s, p = .013); face pop-out task (fixation to face 0.8s vs. 1.34s, p = .023); and social preferential looking (1.16s vs. 1.5s p = .02). Time given to AoIs containing social content as a proportion of LT at the whole stimulus was lower in preterm infants across all three tasks. These results were not explained by differences in overall looking time between the groups. Conclusions: Eye tracking provides early evidence of atypical cognition after preterm birth, and may be a useful tool for stratifying infants at risk of impairment for early interventions designed to improve outcome.

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Visual alertness and brain diffusion tensor imaging at term age predict neurocognitive development at preschool age in extremely preterm‐born children

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Introduction:Cognitive development is characterized by the structural and functional maturation of the brain. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) provides methods of investigating the brain structure and connectivity and their correlations with the neurocognitive outcome. Our aim was to examine the relationship between early visual abilities, brain white matter structures, and the later neurocognitive outcome. Methods:This study included 20 infants who were born before 28 gestational weeks and followed until the age of 6.5 years. At term age, visual alertness was evaluated and dMRI was used to investigate the brain white matter structure using fractional anisotropy (FA) in tract-based spatial statistics analysis. The JHU DTI white matter atlas was used to locate the findings. The neuropsychological assessment was used to assess neurocognitive performance at 6.5 years. Results:Optimal visual alertness at term age was significantly associated with better visuospatial processing (p < .05), sensorimotor functioning (p < .05), and social perception (p < .05) at 6.5 years of age. Optimal visual alertness related to higher FA values, and further, the FA values positively correlated with the neurocognitive outcome. The tract-based spatial differences in FA values were detected between children with optimal and nonoptimal visual alertness according to performance at 6.5 years. Conclusion:We provide neurobiological evidence for the global and tract-based spatial differences in the white matter maturation between extremely preterm children with optimal and nonoptimal visual alertness at term age and a link between white matter maturation, visual alertness and the neurocognitive outcome at 6.5 years proposing that early visual function is a building block for the later neurocognitive development.

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Social perception in children born at very low birthweight and its relationship with social/behavioral outcomes

Cited by 41 publications

References 40 publications

Local and global aspects of biological motion perception in children born at very low birth weight

Local and global aspects of biological motion perception in children born at very low birth weight

Preterm birth is associated with atypical social orienting in infancy detected using eye tracking

Visual alertness and brain diffusion tensor imaging at term age predict neurocognitive development at preschool age in extremely preterm‐born children

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