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Dickinson, Abigail; Jones, Myles; Milne, Elizabeth – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Enhanced low-level perception, although present in individuals with autism, is not seen in individuals with high, but non-clinical, levels of autistic traits (Brock et al.in "Percept Lond" 40(6):739. doi:10.1068/p6953, 2011). This is surprising, as many of the higher-level visual differences found in autism have been shown to correlate…
Descriptors: Visual Discrimination, Visual Perception, Discrimination Learning, Autism
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O'Riordan, Michelle; Passetti, Filippo – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
Recent studies have suggested that unusual visual processing in autism might stem from enhanced visual discrimination. Although there are also many anecdotal reports of auditory and tactile processing disturbances in autism these have received comparatively little attention. It is possible that the enhanced discrimination ability in vision in…
Descriptors: Autism, Auditory Discrimination, Tactual Perception, Hypothesis Testing