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19-11-2015 | Original Paper

Social-Emotional Inhibition of Return in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Versus Typical Development

Auteurs: Ligia Antezana, Maya G. Mosner, Vanessa Troiani, Benjamin E. Yerys

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 4/2016

Abstract

In typical development there is a bias to orient visual attention to social information. Children with ASD do not reliably demonstrate this bias, and the role of attention orienting has not been well studied. We examined attention orienting via the inhibition of return (IOR) mechanism in a spatial cueing task using social-emotional cues; we studied 8- to 17-year-old children with ASD (n = 41) and typically developing controls (TDC) (n = 25). The ASD group exhibited a significantly stronger IOR effect than the TDC group, and the IOR effect correlated positively with social impairments but was unrelated to co-occurring ADHD or anxiety symptoms. The results provide evidence of an early altered attention mechanism that is associated with to core social deficits in ASD.

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Titel: Social-Emotional Inhibition of Return in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Versus Typical Development
Auteurs: Ligia Antezana
Maya G. Mosner
Vanessa Troiani
Benjamin E. Yerys
Publicatiedatum: 19-11-2015
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2661-9

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