Publication Date:
2011-04-13
Description:
Nemeth and Janacsek's (1) letter highlights two findings from our study (2) that seem to be at odds with those from existing studies.First, they suggest that our finding of autistic children's difficulties with searching in a large-scale environment is due to the demands on global processing compared with searching on a smaller scale (e.g., on a computer screen), for which there are fewer such demands. We wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion. Studies have consistently demonstrated that individuals with autism outperform comparison individuals on small-scale visual search tasks and that this outstanding performance is most likely attributable not to attention-related processes...
Keywords:
Letters
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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