ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2015
Individuals with autistic-like traits show reduced lateralization on a greyscales task.
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- Cerebral Lateralization for Language as a Potential Biomarker for the Broad Autism Phenotype: A Functional Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography Investigation.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Figure disembedding facility and reduced left visual field bias are linked to the social dimension of autistic traits.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Elevated and accelerated: Locus coeruleus activity and visual search abilities in autistic children.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2023Article
- Visuospatial Bias in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Line Bisection Tasks.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- No evidence for superior distractor filtering amongst individuals high in autistic-like traits.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Sex differences in hemispheric lateralization of attentional networks.Psychological research · 2021Article
- The Prediction Analysis of Autistic and Schizotypal Traits in Attentional Networks.Psychiatry investigation · 2021Article
- Reduced Pseudoneglect for Physical Space, but not Mental Representations of Space, for Adults with Autistic Traits.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient for Assessing Low and High Levels of Autistic Traits in College Students.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
- Exploring What's Missing: What Do Target Absent Trials Reveal About Autism Search Superiority?Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2016Article
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Abstract
Individuals with autism spectrum conditions attend less to the left side of centrally presented face stimuli compared to neurotypical individuals, suggesting a reduction in right hemisphere activation. We examined whether a similar bias exists for non-facial stimuli in a large sample of neurotypical adults rated above- or below-average on the autism spectrum quotient (AQ). Using the "greyscales" task, we found the typical leftward bias in the below-average group was significantly reduced in the above-average group. Moreover, a negative correlation between leftward bias and the social skills factor of the AQ suggested a link between atypical hemispheric activation and social difficulties in high-AQ trait individuals that extends to non-facial stimuli.
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