Brief Report: Circumscribed Attention in Young Children with Autism
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School-aged children and adolescents with autism demonstrate circumscribed attentional patterns to nonsocial aspects of complex visual arrays (Sasson et al. 2008). The current study downward extended these findings to a sample of 2-5 year-olds with autism and 2-5 year-old typically developing children. Eye-tracking was used to quantify discrete aspects of visual attention to picture arrays containing combinations of social pictures, pictures of objects frequently involved in circumscribed interests in persons with autism (e.g., trains), and pictures of more commonplace objects (e.g., clothing). The children with autism exhibited greater exploration and perseverative attention on objects related to circumscribed interests than did typically developing children. Results suggest that circumscribed attention may be an early emerging characteristic of autism.
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- Authors
- Sasson, N. J., Elison, J. T., Turner-Brown, L. M., Dichter, G. S., & Bodfish, J. W.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Dallas (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sasson, Noah J.
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 2010-05-25
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 242-247
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- PMC
- PMC3709851
- OpenAlex
- W1979595525
- Cited by
- 181
- References
- 14
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- FWCI
- 3.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
- UNC Libraries
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH073402, K23MH081285)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32-HD-40127, P30-HD03110, P30HD003110, 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, young children, circumscribed interests, visual attention, eye tracking, social attention
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Autistic Disorder, Child, Preschool, Exploratory Behavior, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Male, Case-Control Studies, Eye Movement Measurements
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