ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2019
Visual Search Performance Does Not Relate to Autistic Traits in the General Population.
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2019. 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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- Autistic Trait Level and Reaction Time in Older Adults: The Influence of Sex and Task upon Study Outcome.Autism in adulthood · 2026Article
- No evidence for superior distractor filtering amongst individuals high in autistic-like traits.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- High-level visual search in children with autism.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Visual search: Heritability and association with general intelligence.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Article
- Beneficial aspects of autism stemming from enhanced visuospatial skills: Result from a comparative study in India.Indian journal of psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is commonly conceived as the extreme end of a continuum. Research suggests that autistic individuals outperform typically developing controls in visual search. Thus, enhanced visual search may represent an adaptive trait associated with ASD. Here, using a large general population sample (N = 608, aged 9-14 years), we tested if higher levels of autistic traits are associated with enhanced visual search. Visual search was evaluated using both manual responses and eye movements, and autistic traits were measured using the Social Responsiveness Scale. Contrary to our hypothesis, no significant relation between autistic traits and visual search were observed. The theoretical implications of these results are discussed.
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