Salient Social Cues Are Prioritized in Autism Spectrum Disorders Despite Overall Decrease in Social Attention

Autor/inn/en	Chevallier, Coralie; Huguet, Pascal; Happé, Francesca; George, Nathalie; Conty, Laurence
Titel	Salient Social Cues Are Prioritized in Autism Spectrum Disorders Despite Overall Decrease in Social Attention
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43 (2013) 7, S.1642-1651 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-012-1710-x
Schlagwörter	Social Behavior; Cues; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Task Analysis; Interpersonal Competence; Nonverbal Ability; Stimuli; Stroop Color Word Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Stichwort; Autismus; Aufgabenanalyse; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Anreizsystem
Abstract	Diminished social attention is often considered to be a central deficit in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). We further investigate this hypothesis by measuring the distracting power of social and non-social stimuli in the context of a Stroop task among children with ASD and typically developing controls (TDCs). Our results show that Stroop interference increases with social versus non-social distracters in TDCs, whereas the opposite pattern occurs in ASD. Within social stimuli, however, the superiority of direct gaze previously reported in the literature did not differ between the groups. Our data thus suggest that ASD children assign less weight to social than non-social stimuli, but that within social signals, salient stimuli remain prioritized. (As Provided).
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