Attentional Status of Faces for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Remington, Anna; Campbell, Ruth; Swettenham, John
Titel	Attentional Status of Faces for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 16 (2012) 1, S.59-73 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361311409257
Schlagwörter	Visual Stimuli; Autism; Attention; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Adults; Cognitive Processes; Difficulty Level; Comparative Analysis; Reaction Time; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Aufmerksamkeit; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Reaktionsvermögen
Abstract	In recent years there has been a growing interest in the role of attention in the processing of social stimuli in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Research has demonstrated that, for typical adults, faces have a special status in attention and are processed in an automatic and mandatory fashion even when participants attempt to ignore them. Under conditions of high load in a selective attention task, when irrelevant stimuli are usually not processed, typical adults continue to process distractor faces. Although there is evidence of a lack of attentional bias towards faces in ASD, there has been no direct test of whether faces are processed automatically using the distractor-face paradigm. (Contains 4 figures and 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10