The Autism-Spectrum Quotient and Visual Search: Shallow and Deep Autistic Endophenotypes
| Autor: | B. L. Gregory, Kate Plaisted-Grant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Autism-spectrum quotient Visual perception Adolescent Autism Spectrum Disorder Endophenotypes media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Young Adult Perception mental disorders Similarity (psychology) Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common Visual search 05 social sciences medicine.disease Child Development Disorders Pervasive Endophenotype Visual Perception Autism Female Psychology Photic Stimulation Psychomotor Performance 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 46:1503-1512 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3432 0162-3257 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10803-013-1951-3 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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