ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2014
Oblique orientation discrimination thresholds are superior in those with a high level of autistic traits.
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- Visual orientation discrimination in adults with ADHD and ASD: the differential impact of clinical diagnosis and trait severity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Dissociation Between Subjective Sensory Reactivity and Visual Perceptual Sensitivity in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults: A Brief Report.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- ADHD and ASD traits are differentially associated with orientation sensitivity in a non-clinical adult sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Bridging physiological and perceptual views of autism by means of sampling-based Bayesian inference.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Investigating the effects of tDCS on Visual Orientation Discrimination Task Performance: 'The possible influence of placebo'.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2020Article
- Intact perceptual bias in autism contradicts the decreased normalization model.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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- Visual search performance in infants associates with later ASD diagnosis.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2018Article
- Reduced GABA and altered somatosensory function in children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2017Article
- Typical magnitude and spatial extent of crowding in autism.Journal of vision · 2016Article
- A computational perspective on autism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Reduced Oblique Effect in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).Frontiers in neuroscience · 2015Article
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Abstract
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 with autistic traits in non-clinical samples. Here we measure vertical-oblique and, more difficult, oblique-oblique orientation discrimination thresholds in a non-clinical sample. As predicted, oblique-oblique thresholds provided a more sensitive test of orientation discrimination, and were negatively related to autistic traits (N = 94, r = -.356, p < .0001). We conclude that individual differences in orientation discrimination and autistic traits are related, and suggest that both of these factors could be mediated by increased levels of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA.
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