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Hutman, Ted; Chela, Mandeep K.; Gillespie-Lynch, Kristen; Sigman, Marian – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
We examined social attention and attention shifting during (a) a play interaction between 12-month olds and an examiner and (b) after the examiner pretended to hurt herself. We coded the target and duration of infants' visual fixations and frequency of attention shifts. Siblings of children with autism and controls with no family history of autism…
Descriptors: Siblings, Play, Autism, Attention
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Rinehart, Nicole; Tonge, Bruce; Brereton, Avril; Bradshaw, John – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
The aim of the study was to examine the temporal characteristics of information processing in individuals with high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorder using a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm. The results clearly showed that such people demonstrate an attentional blink of similar magnitude to comparison groups. This supports the…
Descriptors: Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Cognitive Processes, Visual Perception
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Cornelissen, P. L.; Hansen, P. C. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1998
A study involving 48 undergraduates found a link between motion detection and letter-position encoding and a positive relationship, albeit a nonlinear one, between motion detection threshold and the likelihood of making letter errors. This result held when age, IQ, reading age, and phonological awareness were taken into account. (CR)
Descriptors: College Students, Disability Identification, Dyslexia, Motion