Enhanced visual functioning in autism: An ALE meta-analysis

Samson, Fabienne; Mottron, Laurent; Soulières, Isabelle; Zeffiro, Thomas A.

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Cited by 351Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchFace Recognition and PerceptionVisual perception and processing mechanisms

Enhanced visual functioning in autism: An ALE meta-analysis

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Samson, Fabienne, Mottron, Laurent, Soulières, Isabelle, Zeffiro, Thomas A.·2012·Human Brain Mapping

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Autistics often exhibit enhanced perceptual abilities when engaged in visual search, visual discrimination, and embedded figure detection. In similar fashion, while performing a range of perceptual or cognitive tasks, autistics display stronger physiological engagement of the visual system than do non-autistics. To account for these findings, the Enhanced Perceptual Functioning Model proposes that enhanced autistic performance in basic perceptual tasks results from stronger engagement of sensory processing mechanisms, a situation that may facilitate an atypically prominent role for perceptual mechanisms in supporting cognition. Using quantitative meta-analysis of published functional imaging studies from which Activation Likelihood Estimation maps were computed, we asked whether autism is associated with enhanced task-related activity for a broad range of visual tasks. To determine whether atypical engagement of visual processing is a general or domain-specific phenomenon, we examined three different visual processing domains: faces, objects, and words. Overall, we observed more activity in autistics compared to non-autistics in temporal, occipital, and parietal regions. In contrast, autistics exhibited less activity in frontal cortex. The spatial distribution of the observed differential between-group patterns varied across processing domains. Autism may be characterized by enhanced functional resource allocation in regions associated with visual processing and expertise. Atypical adult organizational patterns may reflect underlying differences in developmental neural plasticity that can result in aspects of the autistic phenotype, including enhanced visual skills, atypical face processing, and hyperlexia.

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An increasing number of studies show that autistic people outperform nonautistic people on a variety of tasks.
“An increasing number of studies show that while autistic people outperform nonautistic people on a variety of tasks (e.g. Muth, Honekopp, & Falter, 2014; Remington & Fairnie, 2017; Samson, Mottron, Soulieres, & Zeffiro, 2012), these strengths are very rarely considered in the profile of autism (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).”
From Annual Research Review: Shifting from ‘normal science’ to neurodiversity in autism science (2022) · cites this paper as Samson, Mottron, Soulieres, & Zeffiro, 2012
A meta-analysis found overall greater activity across occipital, temporal, and parietal regions in autism spectrum disorder during face, object, and word perception studies.
“In a meta-analysis of ASD visual processing fMRI studies, Samson and colleagues found overall greater activity across a number of occipital, temporal, and parietal regions in individuals with ASD in face, object, and word perception studies (Samson et al., 2012).”
From Behavioral, Perceptual, and Neural Alterations in Sensory and Multisensory Function in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015) · cites this paper as Samson et al., 2012
Individuals with ASD use a different network of brain regions than TD peers to perform auditory and visual tasks (differential recruitment).
“this concept of individuals with ASD using a different network of brain regions than their TD peers to perform auditory and visual tasks, known as differential recruitment, has been a common one (Samson et al., 2012).”
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Functional anatomy of impaired selective attention and compensatory processing in autism
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The neural substrates of cognitive control deficits in autism spectrum disorders
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Frontal lobes and behaviour
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Brain Activation Modulated by the Comprehension of Normal and Pseudo-word Sentences of Different Processing Demands: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
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Perception of Complex Sounds in Autism: Abnormal Auditory Cortical Processing in Children
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Functional abnormalities of the default network during self- and other-reflection in autism
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Enhanced visual processing contributes to matrix reasoning in autism
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Superior Visual Search in Adults with Autism
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Attention does not modulate neural responses to social stimuli in autism spectrum disorders
Bird, G., Catmur, C., Silani, G., Frith, C., & Uta Frith, A. (2006) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.02.037 · Cited by 201 · see citing works
Hyperlexia in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Pursuit eye movement deficits in autism
Takarae, Y. (2004) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awh307 · Cited by 193 · cited 1× · see citing works
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Enhanced Salience and Emotion Recognition in Autism: A PET Study
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Face perception in high-functioning autistic adults: Evidence for superior processing of face parts, not for a configural face-processing deficit.
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Abnormal Variability and Distribution of Functional Maps in Autism: An fMRI Study of Visuomotor Learning
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Smaller left hemisphere planum temporale in adults with autistic disorder
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Neurophysiological correlates of relatively enhanced local visual search in autistic adolescents
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Evaluation of a Shape-Based Model of Human Face Discrimination Using fMRI and Behavioral Techniques
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Local bias and local-to-global interference without global deficit: A robust finding in autism under various conditions of attention, exposure time, and visual angle
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Atypical recruitment of medial prefrontal cortex in autism spectrum disorders: An fMRI study of two executive function tasks
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Neural correlates of reward in autism
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Annotation: Hyperlexia: disability or superability?
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Monitoring of selections of visual stimuli and the primate frontal cortex
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Inhibition and generation of saccades: rapid event-related fMRI of prosaccades, antisaccades, and nogo trials
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A typical participation of visual cortex during word processing in autism: An fMRI study of semantic decision
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Selection and Maintenance of Spatial Information by Frontal Eye Field Neurons
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fMRI activation during a language task in adolescents with ASD
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The Mid-ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Active Mnemonic Retrieval
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Frontal contributions to face processing differences in autism: Evidence from fMRI of inverted face processing
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Social stimuli interfere with cognitive control in autism
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Neural mechanisms of empathy in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and their fathers
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Misidentification syndromes related to face specific area in the fusiform gyrus
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The fusiform face area and occipital face area show sensitivity to spatial relations in faces
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Neural responses to Mooney images reveal a modular representation of faces in human visual cortex
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Verbal Association for Simple Common Words in High-Functioning Autism
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Vision in Children and Adolescents with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Evidence for Reduced Convergence
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Functional brain organization for visual search in ASD
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VEP contrast sensitivity responses reveal reduced functional segregation of mid and high filters of visual channels in Autism
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Search superiority in autism within, but not outside the crowding regime
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Regional Glucose Metabolism within Cortical Brodmann Areas in Healthy Individuals and Autistic Patients
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Far visual acuity is unremarkable in autism: Do we need to focus on crowding?
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HYPERLEXIC CHILDREN READING
Goldberg, T. E., & Rothermel, R. D. (1984) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/107.3.759 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
Dissociation between overt and unconscious face processing in fusiform face area
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Neural substrates of manipulation in visuospatial working memory
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The performance of hyperlexic children on an “incomplete words” task
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Neural correlates of visuospatial imagery
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Working Memory: Imaging the Magic Number Four
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Visual Search Bottom-Up or Top-Down
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Authors: Samson, F., Mottron, L., Soulières, I., & Zeffiro, T. A.
Affiliations: Université de Montréal (CA)
Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
ORCID: Mottron, Laurent
Soulières, Isabelle
Zeffiro, Thomas A.
Venue: Human Brain Mapping
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-04-04
Volume: 33
Issue: 7
Pages: 1553-1581
ISSN: 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
1097-0193
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21307
PMC: PMC6870295
OpenAlex: W2057911790
Cited by: 351
References: 161
Citations by year: 2026: 11 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 30 · 2013: 42 · 2012: 13
FWCI: 2.50
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations: Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: Autism Speaks (AS2706)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords: autism spectrum disorder, visual processing, visual search, visual discrimination, face processing, object processing, word processing, neuroplasticity, hyperlexia, frontal cortex, occipital cortex, parietal cortex, temporal cortex
MeSH terms: Autistic Disorder, Brain, Brain Mapping, Humans, Models, Neurological, Photic Stimulation, Visual Perception

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