No difference in cross-modal attention or sensory discrimination thresholds in autism and matched controls

• Published in: Vision research (Oxford) Vol. 121; pp. 85 - 94
• Main Authors: Haigh, Sarah M., Heeger, David J., Heller, Laurie M., Gupta, Akshat, Dinstein, Ilan, Minshew, Nancy J., Behrmann, Marlene
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2016
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Attention; Attention - physiology; Audition; Auditory Perception - physiology; Autism; Autistic Disorder - physiopathology; Cues; Female; Humans; Male; Sensory Thresholds - physiology; Space Perception - physiology; Vision; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult; Autism; Audition; Vision; Attention

Autism has been associated with abnormalities in sensory and attentional processing. Here, we assessed these processes independently in the visual and auditory domains using a visual contrast-discrimination task and an auditory modulation-depth discrimination task. To evaluate changes in sensory fun...