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Fig. 1 | Molecular Autism

Fig. 1

From: Mimetic desire in autism spectrum disorder

Fig. 1

a The desirability-rating task. Successive screens displayed in one trial are shown from left to right with durations in milliseconds. Participants were instructed to rate “how much they would like to get/have the object.” Every trial of the task started with a fixation cross followed by the video. The desirability scale then appeared on the screen below the picture of the object to be rated (without human agent). The object was taken as the goal of an action in the G condition but not in the NG condition. Colors were counterbalanced at the group level. b The recognition task. Subjects had to select the “old” object, which meant the object that had been featured in the videos (either G or NG) shown during the rating task. Every choice contained one old and one “new” object. In the illustrated example, the correct answer would be green for the choice on the left and yellow for the choice on the right

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