Bottom-Up Attention Orienting in Young Children with Autism.
We examined the impact of simultaneous bottom-up visual influences and meaningful social stimuli on attention orienting in young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Relative to typically-developing age and sex matched participants, children with ASDs were more influenced by bottom-up vis...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 664 - 674 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , , |
| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Mar2014
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| Sumario: | We examined the impact of simultaneous bottom-up visual influences and meaningful social stimuli on attention orienting in young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Relative to typically-developing age and sex matched participants, children with ASDs were more influenced by bottom-up visual scene information regardless of whether social stimuli and bottom-up scene properties were congruent or competing. This initial reliance on bottom-up strategies correlated with severity of social impairment as well as receptive language impairments. These data provide support for the idea that there is enhanced reliance on bottom-up attention strategies in ASDs, and that this may have a negative impact on social and language development. |
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