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Maule, John; Stanworth, Kirstie; Pellicano, Elizabeth; Franklin, Anna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
It has been suggested that attenuated adaptation to visual stimuli in autism is the result of atypical perceptual priors (e.g., Pellicano and Burr in "Trends Cogn Sci" 16(10):504-510, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2012.08.009). This study investigated adaptation to color in autistic adults, measuring both strength of afterimage and the…
Descriptors: Autism, Adults, Visual Stimuli, Color
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Parsons, Thomas D.; Carlew, Anne R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Executive functioning deficits found in college students with ASD may have debilitating effects on their everyday activities. Although laboratory studies tend to report unimpaired inhibition in autism, studies of resistance to distractor inhibition reveal difficulties. In two studies, we compared a Virtual Classroom task with paper-and-pencil and…
Descriptors: Interference (Learning), Color, Reaction Time, Visual Stimuli
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Hartley, Calum; Allen, Melissa L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
We investigated whether low-functioning children with autism generalise labels from colour photographs based on sameness of shape, colour, or both. Children with autism and language-matched controls were taught novel words paired with photographs of unfamiliar objects, and then sorted pictures and objects into two buckets according to whether or…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Generalization, Photography
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Bowler, Dermot M.; Gaigg, Sebastian B.; Gardiner, John M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Diminished episodic memory and diminished use of semantic information to aid recall by individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are both thought to result from diminished relational binding of elements of complex stimuli. To test this hypothesis, we asked high-functioning adults with ASD and typical comparison participants to study grids in…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Memory
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Adams, Nena C.; Jarrold, Christopher – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2009
Findings are mixed concerning inhibition in autism. Using the classic Stroop, children with autism (CWA) often outperform typically developing children (TDC). A classic Stroop and a chimeric animal Stroop were used to explore the validity of the Stroop task as a test of inhibition for CWA. During the classic Stroop, children ignored the word and…
Descriptors: Animals, Reading Comprehension, Autism, Test Validity