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ERIC Number: EJ1144252
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jul
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3257
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Reduced Pseudoneglect for Physical Space, but Not Mental Representations of Space, for Adults with Autistic Traits
English, Michael C.; Maybery, Murray T.; Visser, Troy A.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v47 n7 p1956-1965 Jul 2017
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.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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