Decreased coherent motion discrimination in autism spectrum disorder: the role of attentional zoom-out deficit.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been associated with decreased coherent dot motion (CDM) performance, a task that measures magnocellular sensitivity as well as fronto-parietal attentional integration processing. In order to clarify the role of spatial attention in CDM tasks, we measured the perce...

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Main Authors: Luca Ronconi, Simone Gori, Milena Ruffino, Sandro Franceschini, Barbara Urbani, Massimo Molteni, Andrea Facoetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3490913?pdf=render