Evaluation of the Social Attention Hypothesis: Do Children with Autism Prefer to See Objects Rather than People?
A growing body of research shows that children with autism exhibit selective limitations in their ability to direct their visual attention to social stimuli. The cause of this selective limitation, however, remains unknown. The main purpose of this study is to determine whether the limitations in so...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 1339 - 1354 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2026
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