Atypical Visual Orienting to Eye Gaze and Arrow Cues in Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Stauder, Johannes E. A.; Bosch, Claudia P. A.; Nuij, Hiske A. M.
Titel	Atypical Visual Orienting to Eye Gaze and Arrow Cues in Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 5 (2011) 2, S.742-748 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-9467
DOI	10.1016/j.rasd.2010.08.008
Schlagwörter	Cues; Eye Movements; Autism; Visual Stimuli; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Children; Interpersonal Competence; Attention; Intention; Comparative Analysis; Reaction Time; Nonverbal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Augenbewegung; Autismus; Child; Kind; Kinder; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Aufmerksamkeit; Reaktionsvermögen; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation
Abstract	Although children with autism often fail follow the gaze of others in natural situations they are sensitive to directional cues by eye movements. This suggests that the low-level aspects of gaze cueing and are intact in persons with autism, while the higher level social skills like joint attention and attribution of desire and intention are impaired. The present study investigates whether these low-level aspects of gaze cueing are indeed intact. Children with high functioning ASD (n = 22) and matched controls (n = 22) performed two choice reaction time tasks in which eye- or arrow direction correctly (congruent) or incorrectly (incongruent) cues target location. In children with normal development right side cueing, but not left side cueing, induced a congruence effect for eyes, while this cueing effect was evident for right and left side cueing for arrow cues. In children with ASD left side cueing, but not right side cueing, induced a congruence effect for eyes while right sight cueing, but not left side cueing, provoked a congruence effect for arrow cues. These findings indicate that children with ASD have functional, but atypical, low-level visual orienting to eye gaze and arrow cues. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10