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Allenmark, Fredrik; Shi, Zhuanghua; Pistorius, Rasmus L.; Theisinger, Laura A.; Koutsouleris, Nikolaos; Falkai, Peter; Müller, Hermann J.; Falter-Wagner, Christine M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are thought to under-rely on prior knowledge in perceptual decision-making. This study examined whether this applies to decisions of attention allocation, of relevance for 'predictive-coding' accounts of ASD. In a visual search task, a salient but task-irrelevant distractor appeared with higher…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Prior Learning, Decision Making