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Schulz, Samantha E.; Stevenson, Ryan A. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Recent studies have suggested that individuals who exhibit heightened sensitivity also exhibit higher rates and severity of restricted interests and repetitive behaviours. This line of research has been conducted almost exclusively through caregiver reports of sensitivity. Here, a more rigorous psychophysics paradigm was applied to assess sensory…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Repetition, Sensory Experience, Visual Perception
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Civile, Ciro; Colvin, Eamon; Siddiqui, Hasan; Obhi, Sukhvinder S. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Does the belief that a face belongs to an individual with autism affect recognition of that face? To address this question, we used the "inversion effect" as a marker of face recognition. In Experiment 1, participants completed a recognition task involving upright and inverted faces labelled as either 'regular' or 'autistic'. In reality,…
Descriptors: Human Body, Affective Behavior, Nonverbal Communication, Recognition (Psychology)
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Gras-Vincendon, Agnes; Mottron, Laurent; Salame, Pierre; Bursztejn, Claude; Danion, Jean-Marie – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
Episodic memory, i.e. memory for specific episodes situated in space and time, seems impaired in individuals with autism. According to weak central coherence theory, individuals with autism have general difficulty connecting contextual and item information which then impairs their capacity to memorize information in context. This study…
Descriptors: Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Autism, Visual Stimuli
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Gagnon, Louise; Mottron, Laurent; Bherer, Louis; Joanette, Yves – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2004
This study examined the hypothesis of superior quantification abilities of persons with high functioning autism (HFA). Fourteen HFA individuals (mean age: 15 years) individually matched with 14 typically developing (TD) participants (gender, chronological age, full-scale IQ) were asked to quantify as accurately and quickly as possible…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Autism, Visual Stimuli, Computation