Brief report: Perceptual load and the autism spectrum in typically developed individuals

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1573-1578

  Bayliss, Andrew P ^a   Kritikos, Ada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism spectrum quotient; Flanker task; Perceptual load; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTISM SPECTRUM QUOTIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL LOAD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHENOTYPE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 82955227580     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-010-1159-8     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. RA Almeida JE Dickinson MT Maybery JC Badcock DR Badcock 2010 A new step towards understanding Embedded Figures Test performance in the autism spectrum: The radial frequency search task Neuropsychologia 48 2 374 381 19786040 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.024
2. S Baron-Cohen 2002 The extreme male brain theory of autism Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6 6 248 254 12039606 10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01904-6 (Pubitemid 34597232)
3. S Baron-Cohen S Wheelwright J Hill Y Raste I Plumb 2001 The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test revised version: A study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 42 2 241 251 11280420 10.1111/1469-7610.00715 (Pubitemid 32233124)
4. S Baron-Cohen S Wheelwright R Skinner J Martin E Clubley 2001 The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger syndrome/high functioning autism, males and females, scientists and mathematicians Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 31 5 17 11439754 10.1023/A:1005653411471
5. AP Bayliss G di Pellegrino SP Tipper 2005 Sex differences in eye gaze and symbolic cueing of attention Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 58 4 631 650 16104099 (Pubitemid 40689172)
6. AP Bayliss SP Tipper 2005 Gaze and arrow cueing of attention reveals individual differences along the autism spectrum as a function of target context British Journal of Psychology 96 95 114 15826326 10.1348/000712604X15626 (Pubitemid 40251466)
7. AP Bayliss SP Tipper 2006 Predictive gaze cues and personality judgments: Should eye trust you? Psychological Science 17 6 514 520 16771802 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01737.x (Pubitemid 43855796)
8. M Behrmann C Thomas K Humphreys 2006 Seeing it differently: Visual processing in autism Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10 6 258 264 16713326 10.1016/j.tics.2006.05.001 (Pubitemid 43850401)
9. S Dakin U Frith 2005 Vagaries of visual perception in autism Neuron 48 3 497 507 16269366 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.10.018 (Pubitemid 41551954)
10. G Dawson S Webb GD Schellenberg S Dager S Friedman E Aylward T Richards 2002 Defining the broader phenotype of autism: genetic, brain, and behavioral perspectives Development and Psychopathology 14 3 581 611 12349875 10.1017/S0954579402003103 (Pubitemid 351690090)
11. B Eriksen C Eriksen 1974 Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task Perception & Psychophysics 16 1 143 149 10.3758/BF03203267
12. E Fombonne 1999 The epidemiology of autism: A review Psychological Medicine 29 769 786 10473304 10.1017/S0033291799008508 (Pubitemid 29381037)
13. EJ Grinter MT Maybery PL Van Beek E Pellicano JC Badcock DR Badcock 2009 Global visual processing and self-rated autistic-like traits Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 39 9 1278 1290 19381793 10.1007/s10803-009-0740-5
14. EJ Grinter PL Van Beek MT Maybery DR Badcock 2009 Visuospatial analysis and self-rated autistic-like traits Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 39 4 670 677 18949549 10.1007/s10803-008-0658-3
15. F Happé 1999 Autism: Cognitive deficit or cognitive style Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3 6 216 222 10354574 10.1016/S1364-6613(99)01318-2 (Pubitemid 29261900)
16. F Happé A Ronald R Plomin 2006 Time to give up on a single explanation for autism Nature Neuroscience 9 10 1218 1220 17001340 10.1038/nn1770 (Pubitemid 44454258)
17. E Hermans G van Wingen P Bos P Putman J van Honk 2009 Reduced spontaneous facial mimicry in women with autistic traits Biological Psychology 80 3 348 353 19136041 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.12.002
18. N Lavie 1995 Perceptual load as a necessary condition for selective attention Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 21 3 451 468 7790827 10.1037/0096-1523.21.3.451
19. N Lavie 2005 Distracted and confused? Selective attention under load Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 2 75 82 15668100 10.1016/j.tics.2004.12.004 (Pubitemid 40164472)
20. AM Leslie O Friedman TP German 2004 Core mechanisms in "theory of mind" Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 12 528 533 15556021 10.1016/j.tics.2004.10.001 (Pubitemid 39536249)
21. EA Maylor N Lavie 1998 The influence of perceptual load on age differences in selective attention Psychology and Aging 13 4 563 573 9883457 10.1037/0882-7974.13.4.563 (Pubitemid 29029354)
22. L Mottron M Dawson I Soulières B Hubert J Burack 2006 Enhanced perceptual functioning in autism: an update, and eight principles of autistic perception Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 36 1 27 43 16453071 10.1007/s10803-005-0040-7
23. K Plaisted M O'Riordan S Baron-Cohen 1998 Enhanced visual search for a conjunctive target in autism: A research note Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 39 5 777 783 10.1017/S0021963098002613 (Pubitemid 28339609)
24. I Puzzo NR Cooper P Vetter R Russo PB Fitzgerald 2009 Reduced cortico-motor facilitation in a normal sample with high traits of autism Neuroscience Letters 467 2 173 177 19833170 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.033
25. A Remington J Swettenham R Campbell M Coleman 2009 Selective attention and perceptual load in autism spectrum disorder Psychological Science 20 11 1388 1393 19843262 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02454.x
26. A Shah U Frith 1983 An islet of ability in autistic children: A research note Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 24 4 613 620 6630333 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1983.tb00137.x
27. DR Simmons AE Robertson LS Mc Kay E Toal P Mc Aleer FE Pollick 2009 Vision in autism spectrum disorders Vision Research 49 22 2705 2739 19682485 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.005