Pathbreaking study by Israeli and American neuroscientists reveals autism's 'noisy' secret

(Bar-Ilan University) Strapped into a motion-enabled simulator and wearing 3-D glasses, 36 adolescent volunteers recently experienced what it was like to 'travel' through a field of virtual stars. The experiments provided new and convention-busting data about how sensory stimuli are processed by the brains of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The study was published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.