A substantial and unexpected enhancement of motion perception in autism

JH Foss-Feig, D Tadin, KB Schauder… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Atypical perceptual processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is well documented. In
addition, growing evidence supports the hypothesis that an excitatory/inhibitory …

Global motion perception deficits in autism are reflected as early as primary visual cortex

CE Robertson, C Thomas, DJ Kravitz, GL Wallace… - Brain, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Individuals with autism are often characterized as 'seeing the trees, but not the forest'—
attuned to individual details in the visual world at the expense of the global percept they …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced integration of motion information in children with autism

C Manning, MS Tibber, T Charman… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
To judge the overall direction of a shoal of fish or a crowd of people, observers must
integrate motion signals across space and time. The limits on our ability to pool motion have …

Visual event-related potentials to biological motion stimuli in autism spectrum disorders

A Kröger, A Bletsch, C Krick… - Social Cognitive and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Atypical visual processing of biological motion contributes to social impairments in autism
spectrum disorders (ASD). However, the exact temporal sequence of deficits of cortical …

Contrast sensitivity for motion detection and direction discrimination in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and their siblings

HC Koh, E Milne, K Dobkins - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
The magnocellular (M) pathway hypothesis proposes that impaired visual motion perception
observed in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) might be mediated by …

Enhanced and diminished visuo-spatial information processing in autism depends on stimulus complexity

A Bertone, L Mottron, P Jelenic, J Faubert - Brain, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Visuo-perceptual processing in autism is characterized by intact or enhanced performance
on static spatial tasks and inferior performance on dynamic tasks, suggesting a deficit of …

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

A Zaidel, RP Goin-Kochel… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Perceptual processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is marked by superior low-level
task performance and inferior complex-task performance. This observation has led to …

Motion perception in autism: a “complex” issue

A Bertone, L Mottron, P Jelenic… - Journal of cognitive …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first assessment of motion sensitivity for persons with autism and normal
intelligence using motion patterns that require neural processing mechanisms of varying …

Atypical integration of motion signals in autism spectrum conditions

CE Robertson, A Martin, CI Baker, S Baron-Cohen - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Vision in Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) is characterized by enhanced perception of
local elements, but impaired perception of global percepts. Deficits in coherent motion …

Weaker neural suppression in autism

MP Schallmo, T Kolodny, AM Kale, R Millin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abnormal sensory processing has been observed in autism, including superior visual
motion discrimination, but the neural basis for these sensory changes remains unknown …