Children with autism demonstrate circumscribed attention during passive viewing of complex social and nonsocial picture arrays
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Although circumscribed interests are a hallmark characteristic of autism spectrum disorders, providing a means for quantifying their functional impairment has proven difficult. We developed a passive viewing task to measure aspects of visual attention in children with autism spectrum disorders and typically developing controls. Task stimuli included picture arrays that were matched for social and nonsocial content. Nonsocial content was balanced to include items related to circumscribed interests (e.g., trains) as well as more commonplace items (e.g., furniture). Discrete aspects of gaze behavior were quantified using eye‐tracking technology. Results indicate that visual attention in the autism group was more circumscribed (as indicated by the exploration of fewer images), more perseverative (as indicated by longer fixation times per image explored), and more detail oriented (as indicated by a greater number of discrete fixations on explored images). This pattern of results was similar for both social and object arrays. Within the autism group, overall severity of repetitive behavior symptoms correlated positively with exploration of object pictures and negatively with perseveration on social pictures. Results suggest that children with autism have a domain‐general pattern of atypical visual attention that may represent an exaggeration of a typical attentional process and is related to a tendency to perseverate on images of interest and explore them in a more detail‐oriented manner. Discrete measures of visual attention may therefore provide a reasonable means of quantifying aspects of the repetitive behavior phenotype in autism.
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- Authors
- Sasson, N. J., Turner‐Brown, L. M., Holtzclaw, T. N., Lam, K. S. L., & Bodfish, J. W.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sasson, Noah J.
- Venue
- Autism Research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-02
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 31-42
- ISSN
- 1939-3792 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-3806
- PMC
- PMC3709846
- OpenAlex
- W2010392115
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- 311
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- FWCI
- 3.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- National Institutes of Health (5u54mh066418-05)
- National Institute of Mental Health (U54-MH066418, MH73402, R21MH085254, R01MH073402, MH66418, MH73402T32)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (#HD03110, HD40127U54, P30HD003110, HD-40127, T32HD040127)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, circumscribed interests, visual attention, gaze behavior, eye tracking, perseveration, repetitive behavior, fixation duration, children
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Attention, Autistic Disorder, Child, Eye Movements, Female, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Reference Values, Social Perception, Stereotyped Behavior
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