{"id":122459,"date":"2021-05-10T06:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/autism-related-conditions-linked-to-altered-visual-perception"},"modified":"2021-05-10T06:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:22:20","slug":"autism-related-conditions-linked-to-altered-visual-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/autism-related-conditions-linked-to-altered-visual-perception","title":{"rendered":"Autism-related conditions linked to altered visual perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/autism-related-conditions-linked-to-altered-visual-perception.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autistic people tend to switch between images more slowly than non-autistic people do, a previous study shows. And they spend more time seeing a combination of the two images.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Children with genetic conditions linked to autism <a href=\"https:\/\/insar.confex.com\/insar\/2021\/meetingapp.cgi\/Paper\/38228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perform atypically on a test of binocular rivalry<\/a>, according to a new unpublished study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers presented the work virtually today at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/conference-news\/international-society-for-autism-research-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 <i>International<\/i> <i>Society for Autism Research<\/i><\/a> <i>annual<\/i> <i>meetin <\/i>g. (Links to abstracts may work only for registered conference attendees.) <\/p>\n<p>Binocular rivalry is what happens when a person\u2019s eyes each receive a different input. Most people gradually shift between perceiving one image and then the other as their eyes compete for dominance over the neural circuits involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autistic people tend to switch between images more slowly than non-autistic people do, a previous study shows. And they spend more time seeing a combination of the two images. Children with genetic conditions linked to autism perform atypically on a test of binocular rivalry, according to a new unpublished study. Researchers presented the work virtually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}