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Keehn, Brandon; Joseph, Robert M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
We used eye-tracking to investigate the roles of enhanced discrimination and peripheral selection in superior visual search in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children with ASD were faster at visual search than their typically developing peers. However, group differences in performance and eye-movements did not vary with the level of difficulty of…
Descriptors: Autism, Eye Movements, Visual Perception, Visual Discrimination
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McPartland, James C.; Webb, Sara Jane; Keehn, Brandon; Dawson, Geraldine – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
This study used eye-tracking to examine visual attention to faces and objects in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typical peers. Point of gaze was recorded during passive viewing of images of human faces, inverted human faces, monkey faces, three-dimensional curvilinear objects, and two-dimensional geometric patterns.…
Descriptors: Autism, Attention, Visual Perception, Eye Movements
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Joseph, Robert M.; Keehn, Brandon; Connolly, Christine; Wolfe, Jeremy M.; Horowitz, Todd S. – Developmental Science, 2009
This study investigated the possibility that enhanced memory for rejected distractor locations underlies the superior visual search skills exhibited by individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We compared the performance of 21 children with ASD and 21 age- and IQ-matched typically developing (TD) children in a standard static search task…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Autism, Memory, Severity (of Disability)