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| Title |
Brief Report: Visual Acuity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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| Published in |
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, March 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10803-014-2086-x |
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| Authors |
Matthew A. Albrecht, Geoffrey W. Stuart, Marita Falkmer, Anna Ordqvist, Denise Leung, Jonathan K. Foster, Torbjorn Falkmer |
| Abstract |
Recently, there has been heightened interest in suggestions of enhanced visual acuity in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) which was sparked by evidence that was later accepted to be methodologically flawed. However, a recent study that claimed children with ASD have enhanced visual acuity (Brosnan et al. in J Autism Dev Disord 42:2491-2497, 2012) repeated a critical methodological flaw by using an inappropriate viewing distance for a computerised acuity test, placing the findings in doubt. We examined visual acuity in 31 children with ASD and 33 controls using the 2 m 2000 Series Revised Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study chart placed at twice the conventional distance to better evaluate possible enhanced acuity. Children with ASD did not demonstrate superior acuity. The current findings strengthen the argument that reports of enhanced acuity in ASD are due to methodological flaws and challenges the reported association between visual acuity and systemising type behaviours. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 74 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 22% |
| Researcher | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 5% |
| Librarian | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 21% |
| Unknown | 14 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 25 | 33% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 5% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 12 | 16% |
| Unknown | 21 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 March 2014.
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#15,018,605
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Outputs from Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
#3,728
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#133,018
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#45
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