{"id":1897,"date":"2017-04-25T16:32:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/cinn\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2021-05-24T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:59:21","slug":"bhismadev-chakrabarti-speaking-at-central-european-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/cinn\/bhismadev-chakrabarti-speaking-at-central-european-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhismadev Chakrabarti speaking at Central European University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clues from reward & mimicry to understand Autism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Humans are social beings. Most of us find looking at, hearing, and interacting with other humans to be a rewarding experience.<\/p>\n

One theoretical account of autism is based on the observation that individuals with ASD (Austism Spectrum Disorder) often do not find social stimuli and interactions to be rewarding.<\/p>\n

This account suggests that social behavioural difficulties in ASD are driven by a deficit in reward processing from social stimuli. In his\u00a0research, Bhisma\u00a0studies how reward influences a fundamental aspect of human social behaviour, such as spontaneous facial mimicry.<\/p>\n

Spontaneous facial mimicry is an integral part of everyday social interactions, e.g. we smile automatically when we see others smile at us. Individuals with ASD commonly show reduced spontaneous facial mimicry.<\/p>\n

These two processes of mimicry and reward are intricately linked from early on in human development. Mothers commonly mimic their children, and the children mimic back. This cycle of mimicry helps build social bonds, in children as well as in adults. As adults, we tend to prefer individuals who mimic us more, and, mimic those who we prefer more.<\/p>\n

Bhisma\u00a0studies these links between reward and mimicry using a range of techniques that measure physiological response (using facial EMG), brain activity (using fMRI), eye movements (using eye-tracking), and overt behaviour.<\/p>\n

The emerging picture from his\u00a0research suggests that autism represents a weakening of the bidirectional links between reward and mimicry. Rather than there being a core problem in the act of mimicry per se, or responding to social rewards, autistic symptoms might be more representative of an atypical connection between neural systems involved in reward processing and those underlying mimicry.<\/p>\n

Bhisma will be talking on\u00a0May 3.<\/a><\/p>\n

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