ArticleVision research2016
No difference in cross-modal attention or sensory discrimination thresholds in autism and matched controls.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and auditory sensory alterations: a systematic review on the integrity of cognitive and neuronal functions related to auditory processing.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Pooled it
- Autism spectrum disorder variation as a computational trade-off via dynamic range of neuronal population responses.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Relationships between GABA, glutamate, and GABA/glutamate and social and olfactory processing in children with autism spectrum disorder.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2023Article
- Electrophysiological evidence for increased auditory crossmodal activity in adult ADHD.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Convergent Validity of Behavioural and Subjective Sensitivity in Relation to Autistic Traits.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Shifting attention between modalities: Revisiting the modality-shift effect in autism.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- A Low-Level Perceptual Correlate of Behavioral and Clinical Deficits in ADHD.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018Article
- The Integration of Occlusion and Disparity Information for Judging Depth in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2017Article
- Larger Receptive Field Size as a Mechanism Underlying Atypical Motion Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2017Article
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Abstract
Autism has been associated with abnormalities in sensory and attentional processing. Here, we assessed these processes independently in the visual and auditory domains using a visual contrast-discrimination task and an auditory modulation-depth discrimination task. To evaluate changes in sensory function by attention, we measured behavioral performance (discrimination accuracy) when subjects were cued to attend and respond to the same stimulus (frequent valid cue) or cued to attend to one stimulus and respond to the non-cued stimulus (infrequent invalid cue). The stimuli were presented at threshold to ensure equal difficulty across participants and groups. Results from fifteen high-functioning adult individuals with autism and fifteen matched controls revealed no significant differences in visual or auditory discrimination thresholds across groups. Furthermore, attention robustly modulated performance accuracy (performance was better for valid than invalid cues) in both sensory modalities and to an equivalent extent in both groups. In conclusion, when using this well-controlled method, we found no evidence of atypical sensory function or atypical attentional modulation in a group of high functioning individuals with clear autism symptomatology.
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