Enhanced Visual Search in Infancy Predicts Emerging Autism Symptoms.

ABSTRACT: In addition to core symptoms, i.e., social interaction and communication difficulties and restricted and repetitive behaviors, autism is also characterized by aspects of superior perception. One well-replicated finding is that of superior performance in visual search tasks, in which participants have to indicate the presence of an odd-one-out element among a number of foils. Whether these aspects of superior perception contribute to the emergence of core autism symptoms remains debated. Perceptual and social interaction atypicalities could reflect co-expressed but biologically independent pathologies, as suggested by a "fractionable" phenotype model of autism. A developmental test of this hypothesis is now made possible by longitudinal cohorts of infants at high risk, such as of younger si

SUBMITTER: Gliga T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4502951 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature