학술논문
Evidence of a reduced role for circumscribed interests in the social attention patterns of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Article
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*EYE movements
*ATTENTION
*AUTISM
*RESEARCH funding
*CHILDREN
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ISSN
0162-3257
Abstract
Reduced social attention is characteristic of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It has been suggested to result from an early onset and excessive influence of circumscribed interests (CIs) on gaze behaviour, compared to typically developing (TYP) individuals. To date, these findings have been mixed. The current eye-tracking study utilised a visual preference paradigm to investigate the influence of CI versus non-CI objects on attention patterns in children with ASD (aged 3–12 years, n = 37) and their age-matched TYP peers (n = 30). Compared to TYP, social and object attention was reduced in the ASD group irrespective of the presence of CIs. Results suggest a reduced role for CIs and extend recent evidence of atypical attention patterns across social and non-social domains in ASD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]