A Lack of Left Visual Field Bias when Individuals with Autism Process Faces

Autor/inn/en	Dundas, Eva M.; Best, Catherine A.; Minshew, Nancy J.; Strauss, Mark S.
Titel	A Lack of Left Visual Field Bias when Individuals with Autism Process Faces
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42 (2012) 6, S.1104-1111 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-011-1354-2
Schlagwörter	Autism; Visual Discrimination; Comparative Analysis; Visual Perception; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Cognitive Processes; Human Body; Eye Movements + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Menschlicher Körper; Augenbewegung
Abstract	It has been established that typically developing individuals have a bias to attend to facial information in the left visual field (LVF) more than in the right visual field. This bias is thought to arise from the right hemisphere's advantage for processing facial information, with evidence suggesting it to be driven by the configural demands of face processing. Considering research showing that individuals with autism have impaired face processing abilities, with marked deficits in configural processing, it was hypothesized that they would not demonstrate a LVF bias for faces. Eye-tracking technology was used to show that individuals with autism were not spontaneously biased to facial information in the LVF, in contrast to a control group, while discriminating facial gender. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10