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Children with autism show local precedence in a divided attention task and global precedence in a selective attention task

Plaisted, Kate, Swettenham, John, Rees, Liz·1999·Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
DOI 10.1111/1469-7610.00489
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Children with a diagnosis of autism and typically developing children were given two variations of the Navon task (Navon, 1977), which required responding to a target that could appear at the global level, the local level, or both levels. In one variation, the divided attention task, no information was given to children regarding the level at which a target would appear on any one trial. In the other, the selective attention task, children were instructed to attend to either the local or the global level. Typically developing children made most errors when the target appeared at the local level whereas children with autism made more errors when the target appeared at the global level in the divided attention task. Both groups of children were quicker to respond to the global target than the local target in the selective attention task. The presence of normal global processing in the children with autism in one task but not in the other is discussed in terms of a deficit in mechanisms that inhibit local information in the absence of overt priming or voluntary selective attention to local information.

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  • When undirected, individuals with ASD focus more on local relative to global aspects of a visual image compared with TD peers.

    “when they are undirected, individuals with ASD tend to focus more on the local relative to the global aspects of a visual image when compared with their TD peers (Plaisted et al., 1999)”

    From Behavioral, Perceptual, and Neural Alterations in Sensory and Multisensory Function in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015) · cites this paper as Plaisted et al., 1999

  • When explicitly directed to use global focus, individuals with ASD perform the same as TD peers.

    “when explicitly directed to use global focus (i.e., identify the large letters), individuals with ASD perform the same as their TD peers (Deruelle et al., 2006; Mottron et al., 2003; Mottron et al., 2006; Plaisted et al., 1999; Wang et al., 2004)”

    From Behavioral, Perceptual, and Neural Alterations in Sensory and Multisensory Function in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2015) · cites this paper as Plaisted et al., 1999

  • Plaisted et al. (1999) found no global advantage (local precedence) in the autism group in the divided attention task, but performance was the same as controls in the selective attention task.

    “They found that no global advantage (local precedence) was found in the autism group in the divided attention task, but that performance was the same as controls in the selective attention task.”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Plaisted et al. (1999)

  • Plaisted et al. (1999) suggested that switching the spatial scale of attention was most problematic for the children with autism, and that the default state might well be set at a finer scale than that of typical children.

    “These results suggested that switching the spatial scale of attention was most problematic for the children with autism, and that the default state might well be set at a finer scale than that of typical children.”

    From Vision in autism spectrum disorders (2009) · cites this paper as Plaisted et al. (1999)

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Authors
Plaisted, K., Swettenham, J., & Rees, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • University College London (GB)
  • Goldsmiths University of London (GB)
ORCID
Swettenham, John
Venue
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1999-07
Volume
40
Issue
5
Pages
733-742
ISSN
  • 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-7610
DOI
10.1111/1469-7610.00489
OpenAlex
W2147791601
Cited by
409
References
16
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 1565 d)
Locations
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, Navon task, global-local processing, divided attention, selective attention, global precedence, children with autism, attentional inhibition
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Attention, Autistic Disorder, Child, Discrimination Learning, Female, Humans, Intelligence, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Reaction Time, Size Perception

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