Brief Report: Reduced Grouping Interference in Children with ASD--Evidence from a Multiple Object Tracking Task

Autor/inn/en	Evers, Kris; de-Wit, Lee; Van der Hallen, Ruth; Haesen, Birgitt; Steyaert, Jean; Noens, Ilse; Wagemans, Johan
Titel	Brief Report: Reduced Grouping Interference in Children with ASD--Evidence from a Multiple Object Tracking Task
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44 (2014) 7, S.1779-1787 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-013-2031-4
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Processes; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Eye Movements; Children; Control Groups; Comparative Analysis; Visual Perception; Visual Stimuli; Visual Discrimination; Interference (Learning); Attention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Autismus; Augenbewegung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Aufmerksamkeit
Abstract	This study was inspired by the more locally oriented processing style in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A modified multiple object tracking (MOT) task was administered to a group of children with and without ASD. Participants not only had to distinguish moving targets from distracters, but they also had to track targets when they were visually grouped to distracters, a manipulation which has a detrimental effect on tracking performance in adults. MOT performance in the ASD group was also affected by grouping, but this effect was significantly reduced. This result highlights how the reduced bias towards more global processing in ASD could influence further stages of cognition by altering the way in which attention selects information for further processing. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10