Autism is unusually common among blind people, and children with autism are more likely to have vision problems than their typical peers. Understanding why could lead to better therapies for autism for autism.
Children with autism have trouble learning that faces convey information, which may explain their tendency to miss social cues.
One in five autistic people may have synesthesia, a crossing of the senses. Studying synesthesia in autism may deepen our understanding of both conditions.
Long known as the director of movement, the cerebellum may also coordinate social and cognitive abilities, including those central to autism.
Autistic adults may not experience the typical age-related decline in brain regions related to vision.
Autism is unusually common among people with congenital blindness, in part because the ability to see drives much of brain development.
People with autism may show an altered pattern of brain activity when looking at two competing images.
In autism, a person’s brain may not form accurate predictions of imminent experiences, or even if it does, sensory input may override those predictions.
Autistic people have trouble making facial expressions appropriate to the circumstances.
The pupils of babies later diagnosed with autism shrink more in response to light than those of their typical peers.