- Park, W. J., Schauder, K. B., Zhang, R., Bennetto, L., & Tadin, D. (2017). High internal noise and poor external noise filtering characterize perception in autism spectrum disorder. Scientific Reports, article
- Equivalent noise paradigm in the context of the visual orientation discrimination task.
- Authors argue ASD have higher internal noise in the brain, aka their neural activity has a variance.
- External noise increases perceptual thresholds for ASD.
- Analogy: at a noisy party, and AC noise (external noise) do not really affect how you hear others, as long as the external noise is lower than the internal noise (party noise).
- ASD sensitive to task-irrelevant stimulus noise heightened sensitivity to external noise in ASD.