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13-01-2016 | Original Paper

Exploring What’s Missing: What Do Target Absent Trials Reveal About Autism Search Superiority?

Auteurs: Brandon Keehn, Robert M. Joseph

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 5/2016

Abstract

We used eye-tracking to investigate the roles of enhanced discrimination and peripheral selection in superior visual search in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children with ASD were faster at visual search than their typically developing peers. However, group differences in performance and eye-movements did not vary with the level of difficulty of discrimination or selection. Rather, consistent with prior ASD research, group differences were mainly the effect of faster performance on target-absent trials. Eye-tracking revealed a lack of left-visual-field search asymmetry in ASD, which may confer an additional advantage when the target is absent. Lastly, ASD symptomatology was positively associated with search superiority, the mechanisms of which may shed light on the atypical brain organization that underlies social-communicative impairment in ASD.

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Titel: Exploring What’s Missing: What Do Target Absent Trials Reveal About Autism Search Superiority?
Auteurs: Brandon Keehn
Robert M. Joseph
Publicatiedatum: 13-01-2016
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 5/2016
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2700-1

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