ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2016
Exploring What's Missing: What Do Target Absent Trials Reveal About Autism Search Superiority?
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Pooled it
- Sensory-movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: getting a grip on autism.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 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
- Visual search and childhood vision impairment: A GAMLSS-oriented multiverse analysis approach.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline.Behavior research methods · 2023Review
- Exceptional abilities in autism: Theories and open questions.Current directions in psychological science · 2022Article
- Autism Traits Predict Self-reported Executive Functioning Deficits in Everyday Life and an Aversion to Exercise.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study of Superior Visual Search Abilities in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2020Article
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- Sensory perception in autism.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2017Review
- Noise-robust fixation detection in eye movement data: Identification by two-means clustering (I2MC).Behavior research methods · 2017Article
- Using inclusive sampling to highlight specific executive functioning impairments in autism spectrum disorder.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2017Article
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Abstract
We used eye-tracking to investigate the roles of enhanced discrimination and peripheral selection in superior visual search in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children with ASD were faster at visual search than their typically developing peers. However, group differences in performance and eye-movements did not vary with the level of difficulty of discrimination or selection. Rather, consistent with prior ASD research, group differences were mainly the effect of faster performance on target-absent trials. Eye-tracking revealed a lack of left-visual-field search asymmetry in ASD, which may confer an additional advantage when the target is absent. Lastly, ASD symptomatology was positively associated with search superiority, the mechanisms of which may shed light on the atypical brain organization that underlies social-communicative impairment in ASD.
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