Top

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Gepubliceerd in:

01-11-2012 | Original Paper

Flexible Visual Processing in Young Adults with Autism: The Effects of Implicit Learning on a Global–Local Task

Auteurs: Dana A. Hayward, David I. Shore, Jelena Ristic, Hanna Kovshoff, Grace Iarocci, Laurent Mottron, Jacob A. Burack

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 11/2012

Abstract

We utilized a hierarchical figures task to determine the default level of perceptual processing and the flexibility of visual processing in a group of high-functioning young adults with autism (n = 12) and a typically developing young adults, matched by chronological age and IQ (n = 12). In one task, participants attended to one level of the figure and ignored the other in order to determine the default level of processing. In the other task, participants attended to both levels and the proportion of trials in which a target would occur at either level was manipulated. Both groups exhibited a global processing bias and showed similar flexibility in performance, suggesting that persons with autism may not be impaired in flexible shifting between task levels.

vorige artikel Convergent and Discriminant Validity and Reliability of the Pediatric Anxiety Rating Scale in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders

volgende artikel Disrupted Stimulus Control But Not Reward Sensitivity in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Matching Law Analysis

American Psychological Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., Text Revision). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Burack, J. A., Iarocci, G., Bowler, D., & Mottron, L. (2002). Benefits and pitfalls in the merging of disciplines: The example of developmental psychopathology and the study of persons with autism. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 225–237.PubMedCrossRef

Burack, J. A., Iarocci, G., Flanagan, T. D., & Bowler, D. M. (2004). On mosaics and melting pots: Conceptual considerations of comparison and matching strategies. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34, 65–73.PubMedCrossRef

Dichter, G. S., Radonovich, K. J., Turner-Brown, L. M., Lam, K. S. L., Holtzlcaw, T. N., & Bodfish, J. W. (2010). Performance of children with autism spectrum disorders on the dimension-change card sort task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40, 448–456.PubMedCrossRef

Enns, J. T., & Kingstone, A. (1995). Access to global and local properties in visual search for compound stimuli. Psychological Science, 6, 283–291.CrossRef

Happé, F., & Frith, U. (2006). The weak coherence account: Detail-focused cognitive style in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 5–25.PubMedCrossRef

Hill, E. L. (2004). Executive dysfunction in autism. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 26–32.PubMedCrossRef

Hübner, R. (2000). Attention shifting between global and local target levels: The persistence of level-repetition effects. Visual Cognition, 7, 465–484.CrossRef

Hughes, C., Russell, J., & Robbins, T. W. (1994). Evidence for executive dysfunction in autism. Neuropsychologia, 32, 477–492.PubMedCrossRef

Iarocci, G., Burack, J. A., Shore, D. I., Mottron, L., & Enns, J. (2006). Global-local visual processing in high functioning children with autism: Structural vs. implicit task biases. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(1), 117–129.PubMedCrossRef

Kimchi, R. (1992). Primacy of wholistic processing and global/local paradigm: A critical review. Psychological Bulletin, 112(1), 24–38.PubMedCrossRef

Kimchi, R., Hadad, B., Behrmann, M., & Palmer, S. E. (2005). Microgenesis and ontogenesis of perceptual organization: Evidence from global and local processing of hierarchical patterns. Psychological Science, 16(4), 282–290.PubMedCrossRef

Lord, C., Rutter, M., & Le Couteur, A. (1994). Autism diagnostic interview-revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 24(5), 659–685.PubMedCrossRef

Lord, C., et al. (2000). The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Generic: A standard measure of social and communication deficits associated with the spectrum of autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 30, 205–223

Love, B. C., Rouder, J. N., & Wisniewski, E. J. (1999). A structural account of global and local processing. Cognitive Psychology, 38(2), 291–316.PubMedCrossRef

Monsell, S. (2003). Task switching. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 134–140.PubMedCrossRef

Mottron, L., Dawson, M., Soulières, I., & Dawson, M. (2008). A different memory: Are distinctions drawn from the study of nonautistic memory appropriate to describe memory in autism? In J. Boucher & D. Bowler (Eds.), Memory in autism (pp. 311–329). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef

Navon, D. (1977). Forest before trees: The precedence of global features in visual perception. Cognitive Psychology, 666(9), 353–383.

Ozonoff, S., & McEvoy, R. E. (1994). A longitudinal study of executive function and theory of mind development in autism. Development and Psychopathology, 6, 415–431.CrossRef

Ozonoff, S., Strayer, D. L., McMahon, W. M., & Filloux, F. (1994). Executive function abilities in autism and Tourette syndrome: An informative processing approach. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 35, 1015–1032.PubMedCrossRef

Plaisted, K., Swettenham, J., & Rees, L. (1999). Children with autism show local precedence in a divided attention task and global precedence in a selective attention task. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40(5), 733–742.PubMedCrossRef

Poirel, N., Pineau, A., & Mellet, E. (2008). What does the nature of the stimuli tell us about the global precedence effect? Acta Psychologica, 127, 1–11.PubMedCrossRef

Poljac, E., Simon, S., Ringlever, L., Kalcik, D., Groen, W. B., Buitelaar, J. K., et al. (2010). Impaired task switching performance in children with dyslexia but not in children with autism. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 401–416.PubMedCrossRef

Priyanka, S., Devpriya, K., & Narayanan, S. (2010). Time course of visual attention across perceptual levels and objects. Acta Psychologica, 135(3), 335–342.CrossRef

Rensick, R., & Enns, J. T. (1992). VScope [computer software]. Vancouver: Micropsyc Software.

Rinehart, N. J., Bradshaw, J. L., Moss, S. A., Brereton, A. V., & Tong, B. J. (2000). Atypical interference of local detail on global processing in high-functioning autism and Asperger’s disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 769–778.PubMedCrossRef

Wang, L., Mottron, L., Peng, D., Berthiaume, C., & Dawson, M. (2007). Local bias and local-to-global interference without global deficit: A robust finding in autism under various conditions of attention, exposure time, and visual angle. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24(5), 550–574.PubMedCrossRef

Titel: Flexible Visual Processing in Young Adults with Autism: The Effects of Implicit Learning on a Global–Local Task
Auteurs: Dana A. Hayward
David I. Shore
Jelena Ristic
Hanna Kovshoff
Grace Iarocci
Laurent Mottron
Jacob A. Burack
Publicatiedatum: 01-11-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 11/2012
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1485-0

Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

Deel dit onderdeel of sectie (kopieer de link)

Abstract

Log in om toegang te krijgen

Andere artikelen Uitgave 11/2012

Factor Structure of the Children’s Behavior Questionnaire in Children with Williams Syndrome

Self-Injury in Autism is Largely Unexplained: Now What?

Reasoning on the Basis of Fantasy Content: Two Studies with High-Functioning Autistic Adolescents

Pragmatic Abilities in Children with Congenital Visual Impairment: An Exploration of Non-literal Language and Advanced Theory of Mind Understanding

Temperament and Sensory Features of Children with Autism

Brief Report: New Legislation Supports Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Post-secondary Funding