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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-8-17
pubmed:abstractText
The current research investigated, firstly, whether individuals with high levels of mild autistic-like traits display a similar profile of embedded figures test (EFT) and global motion performance to that seen in autism. Secondly, whether differences in EFT performance are related to enhanced local processing or reduced global processing in the ventral visual stream was also examined. Results indicated that people who scored high on the Autism-spectrum Quotient (AQ) were faster to identify embedded figures, and had poorer global motion and global form thresholds than low AQ scorers. However, the two groups did not differ on a task assessing lower-level input to the ventral stream. Overall the results indicate that individuals with high levels of autistic-like traits have difficulties with global integration in the visual pathways, which may at least partly explain their superior EFT performance.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1573-3432
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1278-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Attention, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Autistic Disorder, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Awareness, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Discrimination (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Field Dependence-Independence, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Motion Perception, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Orientation, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Pattern Recognition, Visual, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Psychometrics, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Psychophysics, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Reference Values, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Self-Assessment, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Sensory Thresholds, pubmed-meshheading:19381793-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Global visual processing and self-rated autistic-like traits.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, WA, Australia. emmagrinter@graduate.uwa.edu.au
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't