Self-motion perception in autism is compromised by visual noise but integrated optimally across multiple senses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 6461-6466

  Zaidel, Adam ^a   Goin Kochel, Robin P ^b   Angelaki, Dora E ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autism; Bayesian; Coherence; Multisensory integration; Noise

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; NOISE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; TEXAS;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TEXAS;

EID: 84929430294     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1506582112     Document Type: Article

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