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Attentional Capacities in Children with Autism: Is There a General Deficit in Shifting Focus?
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Twenty-three children with autism and two control groups completed an attention battery comprising three versions of the continuous performance test (CPT), a digit cancellation task, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), and two novel, computerized tests of shifting attention (i.e., the Same-Different Computerized Task and the Computerized Matching Task). Children with autism could focus on a particular stimulus and sustain this focus as indicated by their performance on the digit cancellation task and the CPT. Their performance on the WCST suggested problems in some aspects of shifting attention (i.e., disengaging attention). The autism group performed as well as controls on the Same-Different Computerized Task, however, that required successive comparisons between stimuli. This implies that they could, in fact, shift their attention continuously. In addition, they did not differ from controls on the Computerized Matching Task, an analog of the WCST, suggesting that they do not have a general deficit in shifting attention.
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“This finding is consistent with previous research examining the effect of reward type on task performance, which indicates that children with ASD may be less motivated by social than non-social rewards [480,565-568].”
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“multiple studies have reported that individuals with ASD perform better on a given task when presented by computer rather than live administration by an experimenter, whereas typically-developing comparison groups perform similarly across modalities”
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“The computerized testing modality was used to decrease the social demands of face-to-face interactions for children with ASD, as suggested by prior research on set-shifting in this population (e.g., Ozonoff, 1995;Pascualvaca et al., 1998).”
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“As discussed in the introduction, children with ASD have been found to exhibit better performance on EF tasks that employ computerized versus live administration by an examiner (Kenworthy et al., 2008;Ozonoff, 1995;Pascualvaca et al., 1998), which has been attributed to the reduced social demands required of them.”
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- Authors
- Pascualvaca, D. M., Fantie, B. D., Papageorgiou, M., & Mirsky, A. F.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- ORCID
- Fantie, Bryan D.
- Venue
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Published
- 1998-12
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 467-478
- ISSN
- 0162-3257 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3432
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- W1538110914
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- 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 › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, attentional shift, sustained attention, attentional flexibility, children with autism, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, continuous performance test
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Autistic Disorder, Child, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Female, Humans, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychometrics, Reference Values, Wechsler Scales
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