Cited by 163Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchVisual perception and processing mechanismsFace Recognition and Perception

Neurophysiological correlates of relatively enhanced local visual search in autistic adolescents

Open access
Manjaly, Zina M., Bruning, Nicole, Neufang, Susanne, Stephan, Klaas E., Brieber, Sarah, Marshall, John C., Kamp-Becker, Inge, Remschmidt, Helmut +3 more·2007·NeuroImage

Abstract

Previous studies found normal or even superior performance of autistic patients on visuospatial tasks requiring local search, like the Embedded Figures Task (EFT). A well-known interpretation of this is "weak central coherence", i.e. autistic patients may show a reduced general ability to process information in its context and may therefore have a tendency to favour local over global aspects of information processing. An alternative view is that the local processing advantage in the EFT may result from a relative amplification of early perceptual processes which boosts processing of local stimulus properties but does not affect processing of global context. This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 12 autistic adolescents (9 Asperger and 3 high-functioning autistic patients) and 12 matched controls to help distinguish, on neurophysiological grounds, between these two accounts of EFT performance in autistic patients. Behaviourally, we found autistic individuals to be unimpaired during the EFT while they were significantly worse at performing a closely matched control task with minimal local search requirements. The fMRI results showed that activations specific for the local search aspects of the EFT were left-lateralised in parietal and premotor areas for the control group (as previously demonstrated for adults), whereas for the patients these activations were found in right primary visual cortex and bilateral extrastriate areas. These results suggest that enhanced local processing in early visual areas, as opposed to impaired processing of global context, is characteristic for performance of the EFT by autistic patients.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.11.036

Cites

67 of 67 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Manjaly et al. (2007) and Lee et al. (2007) have also reported unusual brain activations in ASD groups whilst they performed the EFT, or an analogue thereof.

    “Manjaly et al. (2007) and Lee et al. (2007) have also reported unusual brain activations in ASD groups whilst they performed the EFT, or an analogue thereof.”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Manjaly et al. (2007)

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Weiß R.H. Grundintelligenztest Skala 2 (CFT 20) mit Wortschatztest (WS) und Zahlenfolgentest (ZF) 4th edition 1998 Westermann Braunschweig

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Manjaly, Z. M., Bruning, N., Neufang, S., Stephan, K. E., Brieber, S., Marshall, J. C., Kamp-Becker, I., Remschmidt, H., Herpertz-Dahlmann, B., Konrad, K., & Fink, G. R.
Affiliations
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
  • Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
Corresponding author
Fink, Gereon R.
Venue
NeuroImage
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-03
Volume
35
Issue
1
Pages
283-291
ISSN
1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2029355232
Cited by
163
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 16
FWCI
4.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • NeuroImage (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich) (submittedVersion)
  • RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) (submittedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (056750)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, weak central coherence, Asperger syndrome, high-functioning autism, adolescents, early visual processing, extrastriate cortex, parietal cortex, premotor cortex, hemispheric lateralization
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Autistic Disorder, Child, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Photic Stimulation, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Space Perception, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception, Echo-Planar Imaging, Asperger Syndrome

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review