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SUBMITTER: Wang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4662072 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuron 20151022 3
The social difficulties that are a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are thought to arise, at least in part, from atypical attention toward stimuli and their features. To investigate this hypothesis comprehensively, we characterized 700 complex natural scene images with a novel three-layered saliency model that incorporated pixel-level (e.g., contrast), object-level (e.g., shape), and semantic-level attributes (e.g., faces) on 5,551 annotated objects. Compared with matched controls, peo ...[more]