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Abstract
Neurotypical individuals display a leftward attentional bias, called pseudoneglect, for physical space (e.g. landmark task) and mental representations of space (e.g. mental number line bisection). However, leftward bias is reduced in autistic individuals viewing faces, and neurotypical individuals with autistic traits viewing ‘greyscale’ stimuli, suggestive of atypical lateralization of attention in autism. We investigated whether representational pseudoneglect for individuals with autistic traits is similarly atypically lateralized by comparing biases on a greyscales, landmark, and mental number line task. We found that pseudoneglect was intact only on the representational measure, the mental number line task, suggesting that mechanisms for atypical lateralization of attention in individuals with autistic traits are specific artefacts of processing physically visual stimuli.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1956-1965 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2017 |
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Atypical Cognition in Autism - Preference for Nonverbal Coding & Impaired Connectivity
Maybery, M. (Investigator 01) & Whitehouse, A. (Investigator 02)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/12 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
Research output
- 9 Citations
- 1 Review article
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A review of behavioural evidence for hemispheric asymmetry of visuospatial attention in autism
English, M., Maybery, M. & Visser, T., 12 Jun 2023, In: Autism Research. 16, 6, p. 1086-1100 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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