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Pupillary Responses to Illusions of Brightness in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Overview of attention for article published in i-Perception, May 2018
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Title
Pupillary Responses to Illusions of Brightness in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published in
i-Perception, May 2018
DOI 10.1177/2041669518771716
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Bruno Laeng, Fredrik Svartdal Færevaag, Stine Tanggaard, Stephen von Tetzchner

Abstract

Previous studies indicate that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) do not experience optical illusions in the same manner as individuals with typical development. This study uses pupillary responses as an objective measure of perception of visual illusions, with the hypothesis that adults with ASD will show weaker pupillary constrictions to the illusions than adults without ASD. An eye-tracker was used to investigate the spontaneous pupillary changes to brightness illusions in adults diagnosed with ASD (N = 11) and in a control group (N = 24). Contrary to the hypothesis, the ASD group showed similar pupillary constrictions to the illusory bright stimuli as the control group. Therefore, this study does not support the idea that individuals with ASD have a veridical perception of these types of illusions and instead suggest that atypical perception of illusions does not constitute a universal characteristic of aspect of high-functioning individuals with ASD.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 44 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 20%
Researcher 7 16%
Student > Master 5 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 9%
Student > Postgraduate 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 11 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 8 18%
Neuroscience 6 14%
Engineering 3 7%
Computer Science 3 7%
Unspecified 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 16 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 21 May 2018.
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#6,721,096
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from i-Perception
#193
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Outputs of similar age
#108,584
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Outputs of similar age from i-Perception
#9
of 25 outputs
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