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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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01-02-2009 | Original Paper

A Specific Autistic Trait that Modulates Visuospatial Illusion Susceptibility

Auteurs: Elizabeth Walter, Paul Dassonville, Tiana M. Bochsler

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 2/2009

Abstract

Although several accounts of autism have predicted that the disorder should be associated with a decreased susceptibility to visual illusions, previous experimental results have been mixed. This study examined whether a link between autism and illusion susceptibility can be more convincingly demonstrated by assessing the relationships between susceptibility and the extent to which several individual autistic traits are exhibited as a continuum in a population of college students. A significant relationship was observed between the systemizing trait and susceptibility to a subset of the tested illusions (the rod-and-frame, Roelofs, Ponzo and Poggendorff illusions). These results provide support for the idea that autism involves an imbalance between the processing of local and global cues, more heavily weighted toward local features than in the typically developed individual.

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Participants also completed additional tasks to assess other aspects of cognitive processing, including hidden figures, intuitive physics, digit symbol-coding and global-local processing. Whereas the present report is designed to specifically address questions that relate to illusion susceptibility and autism, the results from these additional tasks will be discussed elsewhere (for a preliminary report, see Dassonville et al. 2007).

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Titel: A Specific Autistic Trait that Modulates Visuospatial Illusion Susceptibility
Auteurs: Elizabeth Walter
Paul Dassonville
Tiana M. Bochsler
Publicatiedatum: 01-02-2009
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 2/2009
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-008-0630-2

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