Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2015
Enhanced integration of motion information in children with autism.
Trial report in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Global Motion Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Pooled it
- Visual Responsivity in Autism: Measuring Visual Responses in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults Using Psychophysics, fMRI, and EEG.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Dissociable effects of element-lifetime and stimulus-duration on local and global motion processing: An equivalent noise study.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- A symphony of functioning: exploring the interplay of cognition, movement, and visual demands in adolescents on the autism spectrum using mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI).Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2026Article
- A symphony of functioning: Assessing the interplay of cognition, movement, and visual processing in adolescents on the autism spectrum using mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI).Research square · 2025Article
- Global motion coherent deficits in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their family members are associated with retinal function.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- ADHD and ASD traits are differentially associated with orientation sensitivity in a non-clinical adult sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Examining auditory modulations on detecting and pooling visual global motion.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Sensory-movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: getting a grip on autism.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Article
- High neural noise in autism: A hypothesis currently at the nexus of explanatory power.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Visual processing and decision-making in autism and dyslexia: Insights from cross-syndrome approaches.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Review
- Autistic traits shape neuronal oscillations during emotion perception under attentional load modulation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Emotional and behavioral alterations and their relationship with executive functioning in the pediatric population with autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy: a comparative study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Does stochastic resonance improve performance for individuals with higher autism-spectrum quotient?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Reduced social attention in autism is magnified by perceptual load in naturalistic environments.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Internal noise measures in coarse and fine motion direction discrimination tasks and the correlation with autism traits.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Measuring the prediction of observed actions using an occlusion paradigm: Comparing autistic and non-autistic adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Integration of visual motion and orientation signals in dyslexic children: an equivalent noise approach.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- How the External Visual Noise Affects Motion Direction Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Behavioural and neural indices of perceptual decision-making in autistic children during visual motion tasks.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
To judge the overall direction of a shoal of fish or a crowd of people, observers must integrate motion signals across space and time. The limits on our ability to pool motion have largely been established using the motion coherence paradigm, in which observers report the direction of coherently moving dots amid randomly moving noise dots. Poor performance by autistic individuals on this task has widely been interpreted as evidence of disrupted integrative processes. Critically, however, motion coherence thresholds are not necessarily limited only by pooling. They could also be limited by imprecision in estimating the direction of individual elements or by difficulties segregating signal from noise. Here, 33 children with autism 6-13 years of age and 33 age- and ability-matched typical children performed a more robust task reporting mean dot direction both in the presence and the absence of directional variability alongside a standard motion coherence task. Children with autism were just as sensitive to directional differences as typical children when all elements moved in the same direction (no variability). However, remarkably, children with autism were more sensitive to the average direction in the presence of directional variability, providing the first evidence of enhanced motion integration in autism. Despite this improved averaging ability, children with autism performed comparably to typical children in the motion coherence task, suggesting that their motion coherence thresholds may be limited by reduced segregation of signal from noise. Although potentially advantageous under some conditions, increased integration may lead to feelings of "sensory overload" in children with autism.
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