Search superiority in autism within, but not outside the crowding regime

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2151-2156

  Baldassi, Stefano ^a,c   Pei, Francesca ^c   Megna, Nicola ^a,c   Recupero, Giorgia ^a   Viespoli, Marco ^a   Igliozzi, Roberta ^b   Tancredi, Raffaella ^b   Muratori, Filippo ^b,d   Cioni, Giovanni ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^c Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Visione   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism; Crowding; Psychophysics; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 67650587286     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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