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

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Coralie Chevallier
Pascal Huguet
Francesca Happé
Nathalie George
Laurence Conty
机构
[1] King’s College University,Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre (MRC), Institute of Psychiatry
[2] Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,Center for Autism Research
[3] Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Aix-Marseille Université,Centre de Recherche de l’Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, UMR
[4] Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (UMR 7290) & Fédération de Recherche 3C (FR 3512),S975
[5] Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6,Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (LPN EA2027)
[6] CNRS,undefined
[7] UMR 7225,undefined
[8] CRICM,undefined
[9] Inserm,undefined
[10] U 975,undefined
[11] CRICM,undefined
[12] Université Paris 8,undefined
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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | 2013年 / 43卷
关键词
Autism spectrum disorders; Stroop effect; Social attention; Social motivation; Eye contact;
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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.
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页码:1642 / 1651
页数:9
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