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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017

Reduced Pseudoneglect for Physical Space, but not Mental Representations of Space, for Adults with Autistic Traits.

Michael C W English, Murray T Maybery, Troy A W Visser

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Michael C W EnglishSchool of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia. michael.english@uwa.edu.au.
Murray T MayberySchool of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.
Troy A W VisserSchool of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurotypical individuals display a leftward attentional bias, called pseudoneglect, for physical space (e.g. landmark task) and mental representations of space (e.g. mental number line bisection). However, leftward bias is reduced in autistic individuals viewing faces, and neurotypical individuals with autistic traits viewing 'greyscale' stimuli, suggestive of atypical lateralization of attention in autism. We investigated whether representational pseudoneglect for individuals with autistic traits is similarly atypically lateralized by comparing biases on a greyscales, landmark, and mental number line task. We found that pseudoneglect was intact only on the representational measure, the mental number line task, suggesting that mechanisms for atypical lateralization of attention in individuals with autistic traits are specific artefacts of processing physically visual stimuli.

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Space PerceptionAdultAttentionAutistic DisorderFemaleFunctional LateralityHumansMaleAutistic traitsBrain lateralityPseudoneglectRepresentational pseudoneglectSpatial attention

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PMID28374209

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