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ERIC Number: EJ1096552
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-May
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3257
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The Autism-Spectrum Quotient and Visual Search: Shallow and Deep Autistic Endophenotypes
Gregory, B. L.; Plaisted-Grant, K. C.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v46 n5 p1503-1512 May 2016
A high Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) score (Baron-Cohen et al. in "J Autism Dev Disord" 31(1):5-17, 2001) is increasingly used as a proxy in empirical studies of perceptual mechanisms in autism. Several investigations have assessed perception in non-autistic people measured for AQ, claiming the same relationship exists between performance on perceptual tasks in high-AQ individuals as observed in autism. We question whether the similarity in performance by high-AQ individuals and autistics reflects the same underlying perceptual cause in the context of two visual search tasks administered to a large sample of typical individuals assessed for AQ. Our results indicate otherwise and that deploying the AQ as a proxy for autism introduces unsubstantiated assumptions about high-AQ individuals, the endophenotypes they express, and their relationship to Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC) individuals.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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