Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are developmental disorders which are thought primarily
to affect social functioning. However, there is now a growing body of evidence that unusual …

Brains are constantly flooded with sensory information that needs to be filtered at the pre-
attentional level and integrated into endogenous activity in order to allow for detection of …

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 …

Autism, an entirely behavioral diagnosis with no largely understood etiologies and no
population-wide biomarkers, contrasts with fragile X syndrome (FXS), a single-gene disorder …

To uncover the circuit-level alterations that underlie atypical sensory processing associated
with autism, we adopted a symptom-to-circuit approach in the Fmr1-knockout (Fmr1–/–) …

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that causes intellectual
disability. It is a leading known genetic cause of autism. In addition to cognitive, social, and …

Preterm birth is a risk factor for deficits of neurological and cognitive development. Four
cohort studies are reported investigating the effects of very premature birth (< 32 weeks …

Visual perception in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often debated in
terms of enhanced local and impaired global perception. Deficits in global motion perception …

The current research investigated, firstly, whether individuals with high levels of mild autistic-
like traits display a similar profile of embedded figures test (EFT) and global motion …

Evidence exists implicating abnormal visual information processing and visually driven
attention in a number of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, suggesting that …