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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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01-07-2013 | Original Paper

Salient Social Cues are Prioritized in Autism Spectrum Disorders Despite Overall Decrease in Social Attention

Auteurs: Coralie Chevallier, Pascal Huguet, Francesca Happé, Nathalie George, Laurence Conty

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 7/2013

Abstract

Diminished social attention is often considered to be a central deficit in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). We further investigate this hypothesis by measuring the distracting power of social and non-social stimuli in the context of a Stroop task among children with ASD and typically developing controls (TDCs). Our results show that Stroop interference increases with social versus non-social distracters in TDCs, whereas the opposite pattern occurs in ASD. Within social stimuli, however, the superiority of direct gaze previously reported in the literature did not differ between the groups. Our data thus suggest that ASD children assign less weight to social than non-social stimuli, but that within social signals, salient stimuli remain prioritized.

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Titel: Salient Social Cues are Prioritized in Autism Spectrum Disorders Despite Overall Decrease in Social Attention
Auteurs: Coralie Chevallier
Pascal Huguet
Francesca Happé
Nathalie George
Laurence Conty
Publicatiedatum: 01-07-2013
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 7/2013
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1710-x

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