ArticlePloS one2011
Increased sensitivity to mirror symmetry in autism.
Article in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- Brief Report: Sensitivity of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Face Appearance in Selective Trust.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2016Article
- Prenatal exposure to recreational drugs affects global motion perception in preschool children.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Oblique orientation discrimination thresholds are superior in those with a high level of autistic traits.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2014Article
- Visuospatial processing in children with autism: no evidence for (training-resistant) abnormalities.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2014Article
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- Normal binocular rivalry in autism: implications for the excitation/inhibition imbalance hypothesis.Vision research · 2013Article
- The brain's response to the human voice depends on the incidence of autistic traits in the general population.PloS one · 2013Article
- Production and perception rules underlying visual patterns: effects of symmetry and hierarchy.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2012Article
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- Human preferences for symmetry: subjective experience, cognitive conflict and cortical brain activity.PloS one · 2012Article
- Changing perceptions: The power of autism.Nature · 2011Article
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Abstract
Can autistic people see the forest for the trees? Ongoing uncertainty about the integrity and role of global processing in autism gives special importance to the question of how autistic individuals group local stimulus attributes into meaningful spatial patterns. We investigated visual grouping in autism by measuring sensitivity to mirror symmetry, a highly-salient perceptual image attribute preceding object recognition. Autistic and non-autistic individuals were asked to detect mirror symmetry oriented along vertical, oblique, and horizontal axes. Both groups performed best when the axis was vertical, but across all randomly-presented axis orientations, autistics were significantly more sensitive to symmetry than non-autistics. We suggest that under some circumstances, autistic individuals can take advantage of parallel access to local and global information. In other words, autistics may sometimes see the forest and the trees, and may therefore extract from noisy environments genuine regularities which elude non-autistic observers.
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