@article {82364,
	title = {Interpersonal distance and social anxiety in Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A behavioral and ERP study},
	journal = {Social Neuroscience},
	volume = {10},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {354-365},
	abstract = {Long-term deprivation of normal visual inputs can cause perceptual impairments at various levels of visual function, from basic visual acuity deficits, through mid-level deficits such as contour integration and motion coherence, to high-level face and object agnosia. Yet it is unclear whether training during adulthood, at a post-developmental stage of the adult visual system, can overcome such developmental impairments.\&nbsp;Here, we visually trained LG, a developmental object and face agnosic individual. Prior to training, at the age of 20, LG{\textquoteright}s basic and mid-level visual functions such as visual acuity, crowding effects, and contour integration were underdeveloped relative to normal adult vision, corresponding to or poorer than those of 5{\textendash}6 year olds (Gilaie-Dotan, Perry, Bonneh, Malach \&amp; Bentin, 2009). Intensive visual training, based on lateral interactions, was applied for a period of 9\&nbsp;months. LG{\textquoteright}s directly trained but also untrained visual functions such as visual acuity, crowding, binocular stereopsis and also mid-level contour integration improved significantly and reached near-age-level performance, with long-term (over 4\&nbsp;years) persistence. Moreover, mid-level functions that were tested post-training were found to be normal in LG. Some possible subtle improvement was observed in LG{\textquoteright}s higher-order visual functions such as object recognition and part integration, while LG{\textquoteright}s face perception skills have not improved thus far. These results suggest that corrective training at a post-developmental stage, even in the adult visual system, can prove effective, and its enduring effects are the basis for a revival of a developmental cascade that can lead to reduced perceptual impairments.},
	url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25666260/$\#$: :text=Interpersonal\%20distance\%20and\%20social\%20anxiety\%20in\%20autistic\%20spectrum,interpersonal\%20distance-the\%20space\%20between\%20one\%20individual\%20and\%20another.},
	author = {Perry, Anat and Levy-Gigi, Einat and Richter-Levin, Gal and Shamay-Tsoory, Simone}
}
