Brief Report: Faces Cause Less Distraction in Autism

Autor/inn/en	Riby, Deborah M.; Brown, Philippa H.; Jones, Nicola; Hanley, Mary
Titel	Brief Report: Faces Cause Less Distraction in Autism
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42 (2012) 4, S.634-639 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-011-1266-1
Schlagwörter	Cues; Autism; Nonverbal Communication; Social Behavior; Communication Problems; Human Body; Attention; Visual Stimuli; Comparative Analysis; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Severity (of Disability) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Autismus; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Kommunikationsbarriere; Menschlicher Körper; Aufmerksamkeit; Schweregrad
Abstract	Individuals with autism have difficulties interpreting face cues that contribute to deficits of social communication. When faces need to be processed for meaning they fail to capture and hold the attention of individuals with autism. In the current study we illustrate that faces fail to capture attention in a typical manner even when they are non-functional to task completion. In a visual search task with a present butterfly target an irrelevant face distracter significantly slows performance of typical individuals. However, participants with autism (n = 28; mean 10 years 4 months) of comparable non-verbal ability are not distracted by the faces. Interestingly, there is a significant relationship between level of functioning on the autism spectrum and degree of face capture or distraction. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10