A substantial and unexpected enhancement of motion perception in children with autism spectrum disorders.
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A substantial and unexpected enhancement of motion perception in autism.
Atypical perceptual processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is well documented. In addition, growing evidence supports the hypothesis that an excitatory/inhibitory neurochemical imbalance might underlie ASD. Here we investigated putative behavioral consequences of the excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in the context of visual motion perception. As stimulus size increases, typical observers e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vision
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1534-7362
DOI: 10.1167/12.9.1352