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Fredrik Allenmark, Zhuanghua Shi, Rasmus L. Pistorius, Laura A. Theisinger, Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Peter Falkai, Hermann J. Müller, Christine M. Falter-Wagner
(2021).
Acquisition and Use of ‘Priors’ in Autism: Typical in Deciding Where to Look, Atypical in Deciding What Is There.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(10), 3744-3758.
Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- Publication date
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29 Dec 2020
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10.1007/s10803-020-04828-2
- Authors
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Fredrik Allenmark,
Zhuanghua Shi,
Rasmus L. Pistorius,
Laura A. Theisinger,
Nikolaos Koutsouleris,
Peter Falkai,
Hermann J. Müller,
Christine M. Falter-Wagner
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- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
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- 51(10), 3744-3758
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- article
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Abstract
Abstract Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are thought to under-rely on prior knowledge in perceptual decision-making. This study examined whether this applies to decisions of attention allocation, of relevance for ‘predictive-coding’ accounts of ASD. In a visual search task, a salient but task-irrelevant distractor appeared with higher probability in one display half. Individuals with ASD learned to avoid ‘attentional capture’ by distractors in the probable region as effectively as control participants—indicating typical priors for deploying attention. However, capture by a ‘surprising’ distractor at an unlikely location led to greatly slowed identification of a subsequent target at that location—indicating that individuals with ASD attempt to control surprise (unexpected attentional capture) by over-regulating parameters in post-selective decision-making.
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