Visual search performance in the autism spectrum II: The radial frequency search task with additional segmentation cues

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4117-4124

  Almeida, Renita A ^a   Dickinson, J Edwin ^a   Maybery, Murray T ^a   Badcock, Johanna C ^a,b   Badcock, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GRAYLANDS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum Quotient; Embedded Figures Test; Radial frequency patterns; Segmentation; Visual processing; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 78649447780     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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