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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Default Local Processing in Individuals with High Autistic Traits Does Not Come at the Expense of Global Attention.
Journal of autism and developmental disorders - 1 Apr 2018
Stevenson Ryan A, Sun Sol Z, Hazlett Naomi, Cant Jonathan S, Barense Morgan D, Ferber Susanne
Abstract excerpt
Atypical sensory perception is one of the most ubiquitous symptoms of autism, including a tendency towards a local-processing bias. We investigated whether local-processing biases were associated with global-processing impairments on a global/local attentional-scope paradigm in conjunction with a composite-face task. Behavioural results were related to individuals' levels of autistic traits, specifically the...
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