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Andreia Santos¹, Cécilie Rondan, Delphine B Rosset

¹Mediterranean Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, CNRS, Marseille, France. a.santos@incm.cnrs-mrs.fr

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Adults with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) showed a consistent low-pass processing bias for both gender and emotion categorization tasks. This differs from typical adults, suggesting altered perceptual processing in autism.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Visual Perception

Background:

Perceptual categorization involves processing visual information at different spatial frequencies.
Individuals with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit differences in sensory and perceptual processing.
Top-down modulation influences how sensory information is interpreted based on context and task demands.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how categorization influences perceptual processing in adults with ASD compared to neurotypical controls.
To examine if individuals with ASD show altered biases in processing spatial frequencies during face categorization.
To explore the role of top-down modulation in the observed perceptual differences.

Main Methods:

Participants included adults with ASD and neurotypical controls.
Hybrid faces, combining different spatial frequencies, were used for categorization tasks.
Participants categorized faces by gender and emotion.

Main Results:

Neurotypical participants showed a low-pass bias for gender and a high-pass bias for emotion categorization.
Adults with ASD exhibited a consistent low-pass bias across both gender and emotion categorization tasks.
A diminished shift in processing style was observed in the ASD group.

Conclusions:

The findings suggest that adults with ASD may have atypical perceptual processing, specifically a consistent reliance on low-spatial-frequency information.
This pattern of processing in ASD could be linked to diminished top-down modulation, affecting task-dependent adjustments in perception.
Understanding these perceptual differences is crucial for developing targeted interventions for individuals with ASD.