Linking Subclinical Autistic Traits and Perceptual Category Learning.

ABSTRACT: Autism spectrum condition is a neurodevelopmental condition with difficulties in social interaction, communication and repetitive behaviours. Autistic individuals often exhibit difficulties in non-social cognitive processing, such as grouping items into meaningful categories based on their holistic visual appearance. Underlying mechanisms might be a deficit in abstracting a category's central tendency (i.e., the prototype) or more general atypicalities in visual category learning processes. Milder autistic traits often also extend to a broader autism phenotype in neurotypical individuals. Our study compared adult neurotypical individuals with high or low autistic traits on behavioural performances and neural correlates measured by event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

SUBMITTER: Warren CV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11831246 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature