
Using these tools, we study areas where individuals with autism excel, such as visual search. In a visual search task, participants have to find a target (a circle in the example to the right) that is hidden among an array of "distractors." Individuals with autism are faster than their peers without autism at finding the target.
Our research explores how individuals with autism achieve their superior performance, with the goal of using this knowledge to enhance our understanding what is different about the brain in autism and how we may be able to utilize these abilities to enhance the lives of individuals with autism and their families.
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