TY - JOUR T1 - Enhanced Visual Temporal Resolution in Autism Spectrum Disorders A1 - Falter, Christine M. A1 - Elliott, Mark A. A1 - Bailey, Anthony J. Y1 - 2012/03/21 N2 - Cognitive functions that rely on accurate sequencing of events, such as action planning and execution, verbal and nonverbal communication, and social interaction rely on well-tuned coding of temporal event-structure. Visual temporal event-structure coding was tested in 17 high-functioning adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and mental- and chronological-age matched typically-developing (TD) individuals using a perceptual simultaneity paradigm. Visual simultaneity thresholds were lower in individuals with ASD compared to TD individuals, suggesting that autism may be characterised by increased parsing of temporal event-structure, with a decreased capability for integration over time. Lower perceptual simultaneity thresholds in ASD were also related to increased developmental communication difficulties. These results are linked to detail-focussed and local processing bias. JF - PLOS ONE JA - PLOS ONE VL - 7 IS - 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032774 SP - e32774 EP - PB - Public Library of Science M3 - doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032774 ER -