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

Autor/inn/en	Hayward, Dana A.; Shore, David I.; Ristic, Jelena; Kovshoff, Hanna; Iarocci, Grace; Mottron, Laurent; Burack, Jacob A.
Titel	Flexible Visual Processing in Young Adults with Autism: The Effects of Implicit Learning on a Global-Local Task
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42 (2012) 11, S.2383-2392 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-012-1485-0
Schlagwörter	Age; Autism; Intelligence Quotient; Youth; Bias; Visual Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Alter; Lebensalter; Autismus; Intelligenzquotient; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Visuelle Wahrnehmung
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. (Contains 2 tables and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10