Individual differences in visual search: Relationship to autistic traits, discrimination thresholds, and speed of processing

Jon Brock; Jing Y. Xu; Kevin R. Brooks

doi:10.1068/p6953

Individual differences in visual search: Relationship to autistic traits, discrimination thresholds, and speed of processing

Jon Brock, Jing Y. Xu, Kevin R. Brooks

Faculty of Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Enhanced visual search is widely reported in autism. Here we note a similar advantage for university students self-reporting higher levels of autism-like traits. Contrary to prevailing theories of autism, performance was not associated with perceptual-discrimination thresholds for the same stimuli, but was associated with inspection-time thresholdöa measure of speed of perceptual processing. Enhanced visual search in autism may, therefore, at least partially be explained by faster speed of processing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	739-742
Number of pages	4
Journal	Perception
Volume	40
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1068/p6953
Publication status	Published - 2011

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