Title |
Ultra-Rapid Categorization of Meaningful Real-Life Scenes in Adults With and Without ASD
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Published in |
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, September 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/s10803-015-2583-6 |
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Authors |
Steven Vanmarcke, Ruth Van Der Hallen, Kris Evers, Ilse Noens, Jean Steyaert, Johan Wagemans |
Abstract |
In comparison to typically developing (TD) individuals, people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) appear to be worse in the fast extraction of the global meaning of a situation or picture. Ultra-rapid categorization [paradigm developed by Thorpe et al. (Nature 381:520-522, 1996)] involves such global information processing. We therefore tested a group of adults with and without ASD, without intellectual disability, on a set of ultra-rapid categorization tasks. Individuals with ASD performed equally well as TD individuals except when the task required the categorization of social interactions. These results argue against a general deficit in ultra-rapid gist perception in people with ASD, while suggesting a more specific problem with the fast processing of information about social relations. |
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