eprintid: 1505841 rev_number: 40 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/50/58/41 datestamp: 2017-06-29 12:02:27 lastmod: 2021-09-17 23:06:51 status_changed: 2017-06-29 12:02:27 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Maule, J creators_name: Stanworth, K creators_name: Pellicano, E creators_name: Franklin, A title: Color Afterimages in Autistic Adults ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J81 keywords: Autism, Afterimages, Adaptation, Color, Top-down knowledge note: Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. abstract: It has been suggested that attenuated adaptation to visual stimuli in autism is the result of atypical perceptual priors (e.g., Pellicano and Burr in Trends Cogn Sci 16(10):504–510, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2012.08.009). This study investigated adaptation to color in autistic adults, measuring both strength of afterimage and the influence of top-down knowledge. We found no difference in color afterimage strength between autistic and typical adults. Effects of top-down knowledge on afterimage intensity shown by Lupyan (Acta Psychol 161:117–130, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.08.006) were not replicated for either group. This study finds intact color adaptation in autistic adults. This is in contrast to findings of attenuated adaptation to faces and numerosity in autistic children. Future research should investigate the possibility of developmental differences in adaptation and further examine top-down effects on adaptation. date: 2018-04 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2786-5 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1144600 doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2786-5 lyricists_name: Pellicano, Elizabeth lyricists_id: LPELL25 actors_name: Bracey, Alan actors_id: ABBRA90 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders volume: 48 number: 4 pagerange: 1409-1421 issn: 1573-3432 citation: Maule, J; Stanworth, K; Pellicano, E; Franklin, A; (2018) Color Afterimages in Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 48 (4) pp. 1409-1421. 10.1007/s10803-016-2786-5 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2786-5>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1505841/1/Pellicano_10.1007%252Fs10803-016-2786-5.pdf