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- Title
No evidence for superior distractor filtering amongst individuals high in autistic-like traits.
- Authors
Visser, Troy A. W.; English, Michael C. W.; Maybery, Murray T.
- Abstract
Autistic individuals and individuals with high levels of autistic-like traits often show better visual search performance than their neurotypical peers. The present work investigates whether this advantage stems from increased ability to filter out distractors. Participants with high or low levels of autistic-like traits completed an attentional blink task in which trials varied in target-distractor similarity. The results showed no evidence that high levels of autistic-like traits were associated with superior distractor filtering (indexed by the difference in the size of the attentional blink across the high- and low-similarity distractors). This suggests that search advantages seen in previous studies are likely linked to other mechanisms such as enhanced pre-attentive scene processing, better decision making, or more efficient response selection.
- Subjects
ATTENTIONAL blink; VISUAL perception; DECISION making; NEURODIVERSITY
- Publication
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 2022, Vol 84, Issue 8, p2715
- ISSN
1943-3921
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13414-022-02575-3