So, our interpretation of all this is that during conditions of rapidly changing attentional demands, generalised arousal substitutes for dysfunctional early selective attention.
This finding is consistent with behavioural studies and also with some EEG work on cross-modal activation in autism. [Kemner]
`Physiological Studies of Attention in Autism: Implications for Autistic Cognition and Behaviour', Matthew Belmonte, 26 January 2002
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