Children with Autism Detect Targets at Very Rapid Presentation Rates with Similar Accuracy as Adults

Carl Erick Hagmann; Bradley Wyble; Nicole Shea; Megan LeBlanc; Wendy R. Kates; Natalie Russo

doi:10.1007/s10803-016-2705-9

Children with Autism Detect Targets at Very Rapid Presentation Rates with Similar Accuracy as Adults

Carl Erick Hagmann, Bradley Wyble, Nicole Shea, Megan LeBlanc, Wendy R. Kates, Natalie Russo

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Enhanced perception may allow for visual search superiority by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but does it occur over time? We tested high-functioning children with ASD, typically developing (TD) children, and TD adults in two tasks at three presentation rates (50, 83.3, and 116.7 ms/item) using rapid serial visual presentation. In the Color task, participants detected a purple target letter amongst black letter distractors. In the Category task, participants detected a letter amongst number distractors. Slower rates resulted in higher accuracy. Children with ASD were more accurate than TD children and similar to adults at the fastest rate when detecting color-marked targets, indicating atypical neurodevelopment in ASD may cause generalized perceptual enhancement relative to typically developing peers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1762-1772
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume	46
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2705-9
State	Published - May 1 2016

Keywords

Attention
Autism
Cognition
Development
Perception
RSVP
Visual search

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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