Susceptibility to the Shepard illusion in participants with autism: Reduced top-down influences within perception?

Autism Research

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 113-119

  Mitchell, Peter ^a   Mottron, Laurent ^b   Soulières, Isabelle ^b   Ropar, Danielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D perception; Low level perception; Visual illusion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ILLUSION; ASSOCIATION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; AWARENESS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; AWARENESS; CHILD; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955595023     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.130     Document Type: Article

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