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Children with Autism Fail to Orient to Naturally Occurring Social Stimuli
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Children with autism were compared to developmentally matched children with Down syndrome or typical development in terms of their ability to visually orient to two social stimuli (name called, hands clapping) and two nonsocial stimuli (rattle, musical jack-in-the-box), and in terms of their ability to share attention (following another's gaze or point). It was found that, compared to children with Down syndrome or typical development, children with autism more frequently failed to orient to all stimuli, and that this failure was much more extreme for social stimuli. Children with autism who oriented to social stimuli took longer to do so compared to the other two groups of children. Children with autism also exhibited impairments in shared attention. Moreover, for both children with autism and Down syndrome, correlational analyses revealed a relation between shared attention performance and the ability to orient to social stimuli, but no relation between shared attention performance and the ability to orient to nonsocial stimuli. Results suggest that social orienting impairments may contribute to difficulties in shared attention found in autism.
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“Consistent with this model, very young children with ASD display decreased orienting to social stimuli [550,555]”
From Reward circuitry dysfunction in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic syndromes: animal models and clinical findings (2012) · cites this paper as [550]
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“Social attention models of ASD propose that deficits in social attention and orienting begin to emerge in the second half of the first year of life, leading to reduced engagement with social stimuli, and thus reduced opportunities for social learning [13–16].”
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“These early deficits may thus have cascading effects on social communication development.”
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“Social attention models of ASD propose that deficits in social attention and orienting begin to emerge in the second half of the first year of life, leading to reduced engagement with social stimuli, and thus reduced opportunities for social learning [13–16].”
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“Developmental decreases in allocation of attention to social stimuli in ASD could be a consequence of earlier-emerging difficulties with processing social information [6, 14, 22].”
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“Under such models, initial subcortically mediated social orienting mechanisms are intact in ASD [23], but difficulties with processing incoming social information make social experiences progressively less rewarding, leading to decreases in social attention over developmental time.”
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“Deficits of gaze following are among the symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) (Dawson et al., 1998).”
From Oxytocin enhances gaze-following responses to videos of natural social behavior in adult male rhesus monkeys (2016) · cites this paper as Dawson et al., 1998
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“individuals with ASD (though showing reduced orienting abilities to all stimulus types) show an exaggerated difficulty in orienting to socially relevant auditory stimuli including, but not limited to, speech (Dawson et al., 1998; Dawson et al., 2004; Kuhl et al., 2005; Paul et al., 2007)”
From Behavioral, Perceptual, and Neural Alterations in Sensory and Multisensory Function in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015) · cites this paper as Dawson et al., 1998
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“In contrast to typically developing peers, infants with autism do not preferentially attend to mother’s speech or child-directed speech (Dawson et al., 1998, Klin, 1991, Paul et al., 2007).”
From The impact of atypical sensory processing on social impairments in autism spectrum disorder (2018) · cites this paper as Dawson et al., 1998
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dawson, G., Meltzoff, A. N., Osterling, J., Rinaldi, J., & Brown, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- ORCID
- Meltzoff, Andrew N.
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 1998-12
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 479-485
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
- OpenAlex
- W2158326438
- Cited by
- 1,065
- References
- 14
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- FWCI
- 4.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01ns026678-06)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS26678)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, social orienting, joint attention, gaze following, pointing, Down syndrome, social stimuli, visual attention, children
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Autistic Disorder, Child, Child, Preschool, Diagnosis, Differential, Down Syndrome, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Orientation, Social Behavior, Social Perception, Sound Localization
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