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9690939

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-10-28
pubmed:abstractText
High-functioning adults with autism and control adults were tested on a perceptual learning task that compared discrimination performance on familiar and novel stimuli. Control adults were better able to discriminate familiar than novel stimuli--the perceptual learning effect. No perceptual learning effect was observed in adults with autism although they discriminated the novel stimuli significantly better than control adults. This enhanced discrimination learning about novel, but not familiar, stimuli in autism is discussed in relation to two current hypotheses of information processing in autism--weak central coherence and reduced attention-switching--and a new third hypothesis, which suggests that features held in common between stimuli are processed poorly and features unique to a stimulus are processed well in autism.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0021-9630
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
765-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Enhanced discrimination of novel, highly similar stimuli by adults with autism during a perceptual learning task.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Cambridge, Downing Site, UK. kcp1000@cus.cam.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't