ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3127-4851; Shi, Zhuanghua; Pistorius, Rasmus L.; Theisinger, Laura A.; Koutsouleris, Nikolaos; Falkai, Peter
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2873-8667; Müller, Hermann J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4774-5654 and Falter-Wagner, Christine M.
(2021):
Acquisition and Use of 'Priors' in Autism: Typical in Deciding Where to Look, Atypical in Deciding What Is There.
In: Journal of autism and developmental disorders, Vol. 51: pp. 3744-3758
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Abstract
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are thought to under-rely on prior knowledge in perceptual decision-making. This study examined whether this applies to decisions of attention allocation, of relevance for 'predictive-coding' accounts of ASD. In a visual search task, a salient but task-irrelevant distractor appeared with higher probability in one display half. Individuals with ASD learned to avoid 'attentional capture' by distractors in the probable region as effectively as control participants-indicating typical priors for deploying attention. However, capture by a 'surprising' distractor at an unlikely location led to greatly slowed identification of a subsequent target at that location-indicating that individuals with ASD attempt to control surprise (unexpected attentional capture) by over-regulating parameters in post-selective decision-making.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Form of publication: | Publisher's Version |
Faculties: | Psychology and Education Science > Department Psychology |
Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 150 Psychology |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-75348-3 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 75348 |
Date Deposited: | 18. Mar 2021, 10:23 |
Last Modified: | 06. Dec 2021, 11:52 |