Abstract
Previous research suggests that autistic individuals exhibit atypical hierarchical processing, however, most of these studies focused solely on children. Thus, the main aim of the current study was to investigate the presence of atypical local or global processing in autistic adults using a traditional divided attention task with Navon’s hierarchical figures. Reaction time data of 27 autistic and 25 neurotypical (NT) adults was analysed using multilevel modelling and Bayesian analysis. The results revealed that autistic, like NT, adults experienced a global precedence effect. Moreover, both autistic and NT participants experienced global and local interference effects. In contrast to previous findings with children, the current study suggests that autistic adults exhibit a typical, albeit unexpected, processing of hierarchical figures.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 442-448 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY |
| Early online date | 8 Apr 2020 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 8 Apr 2020 |
Keywords
- Autism
- Adults
- Hierarchical Processing
- Visual Perception