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Impaired disengagement of attention in young children with autism
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Background: The present study examined the disengage and shift operations of visual attention in young children with autism. Methods: For this purpose, we used a simple visual orienting task that is thought to engage attention automatically. Once attention was first engaged on a central fixation stimulus, a second stimulus was presented on either side, either simultaneously or successively. Latency to begin an eye movement to the peripheral stimulus served as the main dependent measure. The two stimulus conditions (simultaneous and successive) provided independent measures of disengaging and shifting attention, respectively. Performance of children with autism was compared to that of children with Down syndrome and a normal group. Results: The main finding was that relative to both comparison groups, children with autism had marked difficulty in disengaging attention. Indeed, on 20% of trials they remained fixated on the first of two competing stimuli for the entire 8‐second trial duration. Evidence is also provided for a more subtle problem in executing rapid shifts of attention. Conclusions: Our findings on disengagement in autism parallel those reported in normal 2‐month‐olds, in whom attention has been described as ‘obligatory’. Discussion focuses on the potential role of general versus domain‐specific processes in producing some of the core features of autism.
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“Additionally, the authors report that the frequency of fast attentional shifts (i.e., the number of shifts with latency between 100 and 300ms) for the gap condition was significantly reduced in the ASD group”
From Atypical attentional networks and the emergence of autism (2013) · cites this paper as Landry & Bryson, 2004
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“Older children and adults with autism have difficulty in disengaging attention from a central fixation stimulus in attention competition tasks (Kawakubo et al., 2007; Landry & Bryson, 2004; but see Fischer, Koldewyn, Jiang, & Kanwisher, 2013 for contrasting findings).”
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“Interestingly, perceptual shifting has shown to be deficient in individuals with autism [50]”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Landry, R., & Bryson, S. E.
- Affiliations
- Cape Breton Regional Hospital (CA)
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- Venue
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-07-19
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1115-1122
- ISSN
- 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7610
- OpenAlex
- W2115529264
- Cited by
- 545
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01 HD 35466, P01HD035466)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, attentional disengagement, attentional shift, visual attention, young children, Down syndrome, visual orienting, eye movement latency
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Autistic Disorder, Child, Child, Preschool, Down Syndrome, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Male, Reaction Time, Temperament, Visual Perception, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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