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Van Eylen, Lien; Boets, Bart; Steyaert, Jean; Wagemans, Johan; Noens, Ilse – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Local and global visual processing abilities and processing style were investigated in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) versus typically developing individuals, children versus adolescents and boys versus girls. Individuals with ASD displayed more attention to detail in daily life, while laboratory tasks showed slightly reduced…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Severity (of Disability), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Van der Hallen, Ruth; Evers, Kris; Boets, Bart; Steyaert, Jean; Noens, Ilse; Wagemans, Johan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Visual search has been used extensively to investigate differences in mid-level visual processing between individuals with ASD and TD individuals. The current study employed two visual search paradigms with Gaborized stimuli to assess the impact of task distractors (Experiment 1) and task instruction (Experiment 2) on local-global visual…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Visual Perception
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Dillen, Claudia; Steyaert, Jean; Op de Beeck, Hans P.; Boets, Bart – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
The embedded figures test has often been used to reveal weak central coherence in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here, we administered a more standardized automated version of the embedded figures test in combination with the configural superiority task, to investigate the effect of contextual modulation on local feature…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis