High internal noise and poor external noise filtering characterize perception in autism spectrum disorder

WJ Park, KB Schauder, R Zhang, L Bennetto… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
An emerging hypothesis postulates that internal noise is a key factor influencing perceptual
abilities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Given fundamental and inescapable effects of …

The influence of picture book design on visual attention of children with autism: a pilot study

X Lian, WCH Hong, X Xu, KZ Kimberly… - International journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Taking 22 children with mild and moderate autism as subjects and using the TobiiX 120 eye-
tracker to record their eye movements in visual search of images in picture books, the …

Behavioural and neural indices of perceptual decision-making in autistic children during visual motion tasks

C Manning, CD Hassall, LT Hunt, AM Norcia… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Many studies report atypical responses to sensory information in autistic individuals, yet it is
not clear which stages of processing are affected, with little consideration given to decision …

Individual differences in autism-like traits are associated with reduced goal emulation in a computational model of observational learning

Q Wu, S Oh, R Tadayonnejad, JD Feusner… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
The ability to infer the goals and intentions of others is crucial for social interactions, and
such social capabilities are broadly distributed across individuals. Autism-like traits (that is …

Visual processing and decision-making in autism and dyslexia: Insights from cross-syndrome approaches

C Manning - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Atypical visual processing has been reported in developmental conditions like autism and
dyslexia, and some accounts propose a causal role for visual processing in the development …

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder have altered visual encoding capacity

JP Noel, LQ Zhang, AA Stocker, DE Angelaki - PLoS biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Perceptual anomalies in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been
attributed to an imbalance in weighting incoming sensory evidence with prior knowledge …

Structural and contextual priors affect visual search in children with and without autism

S Van de Cruys, L Lemmens… - Autism …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bayesian predictive coding theories of autism spectrum disorder propose that impaired
acquisition or a broader shape of prior probability distributions lies at the core of the …

[HTML][HTML] Global motion evoked potentials in autistic and dyslexic children: a cross-syndrome approach

L Toffoli, G Scerif, MJ Snowling, AM Norcia, C Manning - cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Atypicalities in psychophysical thresholds for global motion processing have been reported
in many neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism and dyslexia. Cross-syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Visual processing and decision-making in autism and dyslexia: Insights from cross-syndrome approaches

C Manning - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Atypical visual processing has been reported in developmental conditions like autism and
dyslexia, and some accounts propose a causal role for visual processing in the development …

Implicit learning in 3‐year‐olds with high and low likelihood of autism shows no evidence of precision weighting differences

EK Ward, JK Buitelaar, S Hunnius - Developmental Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predictive Processing accounts of autism claim that autistic individuals assign higher
precision to their prediction errors than non‐autistic individuals, that is, autistic individuals …