How the External Visual Noise Affects Motion Direction Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Along with social, cognitive, and behavior deficiencies, peculiarities in sensory processing, including an atypical global motion processing, have been reported in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The question about the enhanced motion pooling in ASD is still debatable. The aim of the present study w...
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| author | Nadejda Bocheva Ivan Hristov Simeon Stefanov Tsvetalin Totev Svetla Nikolaeva Staykova Milena Slavcheva Mihaylova |
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| description | Along with social, cognitive, and behavior deficiencies, peculiarities in sensory processing, including an atypical global motion processing, have been reported in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The question about the enhanced motion pooling in ASD is still debatable. The aim of the present study was to compare global motion integration in ASD using a low-density display and the equivalent noise (EN) approach. Fifty-seven children and adolescents with ASD or with typical development (TD) had to determine the average direction of movement of 30 Laplacian-of-Gaussian micro-patterns. They moved in directions determined by a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 2°, 5°, 10°, 15°, 25°, and 35°, corresponding to the added external noise. The data obtained showed that the ASD group has much larger individual differences in motion direction thresholds on external noise effect than the TD group. Applying the equivalent noise paradigm, we found that the global motion direction discrimination thresholds were more elevated in ASD than in controls at all noise levels. These results suggest that ASD individuals have a poor ability to integrate the local motion information in low-density displays. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc63865ef64044328ab0ef59eba79ad02023-12-01T00:50:18ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2022-04-0112411310.3390/bs12040113How the External Visual Noise Affects Motion Direction Discrimination in Autism Spectrum DisorderNadejda Bocheva0Ivan Hristov1Simeon Stefanov2Tsvetalin Totev3Svetla Nikolaeva Staykova4Milena Slavcheva Mihaylova5Department of Sensory Neurobiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, BulgariaDepartment of Sensory Neurobiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, BulgariaDepartment of Sensory Neurobiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, BulgariaDepartment of Sensory Neurobiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, BulgariaDepartment of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Sofia Medical University, 1431 Sofia, BulgariaDepartment of Sensory Neurobiology, Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, BulgariaAlong with social, cognitive, and behavior deficiencies, peculiarities in sensory processing, including an atypical global motion processing, have been reported in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The question about the enhanced motion pooling in ASD is still debatable. The aim of the present study was to compare global motion integration in ASD using a low-density display and the equivalent noise (EN) approach. Fifty-seven children and adolescents with ASD or with typical development (TD) had to determine the average direction of movement of 30 Laplacian-of-Gaussian micro-patterns. They moved in directions determined by a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 2°, 5°, 10°, 15°, 25°, and 35°, corresponding to the added external noise. The data obtained showed that the ASD group has much larger individual differences in motion direction thresholds on external noise effect than the TD group. Applying the equivalent noise paradigm, we found that the global motion direction discrimination thresholds were more elevated in ASD than in controls at all noise levels. These results suggest that ASD individuals have a poor ability to integrate the local motion information in low-density displays.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/12/4/113visual perceptionmotion directionAutism Spectrum Disorderequivalent noise paradigm |
| spellingShingle | Nadejda Bocheva Ivan Hristov Simeon Stefanov Tsvetalin Totev Svetla Nikolaeva Staykova Milena Slavcheva Mihaylova How the External Visual Noise Affects Motion Direction Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder Behavioral Sciences visual perception motion direction Autism Spectrum Disorder equivalent noise paradigm |
| title | How the External Visual Noise Affects Motion Direction Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| title_full | How the External Visual Noise Affects Motion Direction Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| title_fullStr | How the External Visual Noise Affects Motion Direction Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| title_full_unstemmed | How the External Visual Noise Affects Motion Direction Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| title_short | How the External Visual Noise Affects Motion Direction Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| title_sort | how the external visual noise affects motion direction discrimination in autism spectrum disorder |
| topic | visual perception motion direction Autism Spectrum Disorder equivalent noise paradigm |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/12/4/113 |
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