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Impairment in shifting attention in autistic and cerebellar patients
Abstract
MRI and autopsy evidence of early maldevelopment of cerebellar vermis and hemispheres in autism raise the question of how cerebellar maldevelopment contributes to the cognitive and social deficits characteristic of autism. Compared with normal controls, autistic patients and patients with acquired cerebellar lesions were similarly impaired in a task requiring rapid and accurate shifts of attention between auditory and visual stimuli. Neurophysiologic and behavioral evidence rules out motor dysfunction as the cause of this deficit. These findings are consistent with the proposal that in autism cerebellar maldevelopment may contribute to an inability to execute rapid attention shifts, which in turn undermines social and cognitive development, and also with the proposal that the human cerebellum is involved in the coordination of rapid attention shifts in a fashion analogous to its role in the coordination of movement.
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“These deficits reflect slowed rather than absent shifts as both groups were able to shift attention when given more time (>2.5s).”
From Atypical attentional networks and the emergence of autism (2013) · cites this paper as Courchesne et al., 1994
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“Courchesne and colleagues (1994) found impaired attention shifting between auditory and visual modalities in adults with ASD, similar to patients with cerebellar lesions.”
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- Authors
- Courchesne, E., Townsend, J., Akshoomoff, N. A., Saitoh, O., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Lincoln, A. J., James, H. E., Haas, R. H., Schreibman, L., & Lau, L.
- Affiliations
- Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego (US)
- Venue
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 848-865
- ISSN
- 0735-7044 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0084
- OpenAlex
- W2053829454
- Cited by
- 647
- References
- 104
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 27 · 2013: 37 · 2012: 21
- FWCI
- 8.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH036840, 1-RO1-MH36840)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS019855, 5 RO1-NS-19855)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, attentional shift, cerebellar lesions, cerebellar vermis, social dysfunction, cognitive impairment, motor coordination
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Astrocytoma, Attention, Auditory Perception, Autistic Disorder, Cerebellar Neoplasms, Cerebellum, Child, Corpus Callosum, Dominance, Cerebral, Female, Humans, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Postoperative Complications, Reaction Time, Social Behavior, Visual Perception, Agenesis of Corpus Callosum
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