Faces Do Not Capture Special Attention in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Change Blindness Study

Autor/inn/en	Kikuchi, Yukiko; Senju, Atsushi; Tojo, Yoshikuni; Osanai, Hiroo; Hasegawa, Toshikazu
Titel	Faces Do Not Capture Special Attention in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Change Blindness Study
Quelle	In: Child Development, 80 (2009) 5, S.1421-1433 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01342.x
Schlagwörter	Autism; Human Body; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Attention; Nonverbal Communication; Recognition (Psychology); Children; Interpersonal Competence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Menschlicher Körper; Aufmerksamkeit; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Child; Kind; Kinder; Interpersonale Kompetenz
Abstract	Two experiments investigated attention of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to faces and objects. In both experiments, children (7- to 15-year-olds) detected the difference between 2 visual scenes. Results in Experiment 1 revealed that typically developing children (n = 16) detected the change in faces faster than in objects, whereas children with ASD (n = 16) were equally fast in detecting changes in faces and objects. These results were replicated in Experiment 2 (n = 16 in children with ASD and 22 in typically developing children), which does not require face recognition skill. Results suggest that children with ASD lack an attentional bias toward others' faces, which could contribute to their atypical social orienting. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10