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Liu, Chunyan; Zhai, Huajie; Su, Shuhua; Song, Sutao; Chen, Gongxiang; Jiang, Yi – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Previous studies have found reduced leftward bias of facial processing in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, it is not clear whether they manifest a leftward bias in general visual processing. To shed light on this issue, the current study used the manual line bisection task to assess children 5 to 15 years of age with ASD…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Adolescents, Visual Perception
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Bos, Dienke J.; Silver, Benjamin M.; Barnes, Emily D.; Ajodan, Eliana L.; Silverman, Melanie R.; Clark-Whitney, Elysha; Tarpey, Thaddeus; Jones, Rebecca M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Differences in motivation during adolescence relative to childhood and adulthood in autism was tested in a cross-sectional study. 156 Typically developing individuals and 79 individuals with autism ages 10-30 years of age completed a go/nogo task with social and non-social cues. To assess age effects, linear and quadratic models were used.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Comparative Analysis
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Becker, Casey; Caterer, Evangeline; Chouinard, Philippe A.; Laycock, Robin – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Typically developing adults with low and high Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) scores made rapid social evaluations of neutral faces when these were primed by briefly presented emotional faces. High AQ participants rated neutral faces as more threatening than low AQ participants, regardless of the prime condition. Both groups rated target neutral…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Interpersonal Competence
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Ronconi, Luca; Devita, Maria; Molteni, Massimo; Gori, Simone; Facoetti, Andrea – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Previous studies independently demonstrated impairments in rapid orienting/disengagement and zooming-out of spatial attention in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These attentional mechanisms, however, are not completely independent. Aiming at a more complete picture of spatial attention deficits in ASD, we examined the relationship between…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Visual Perception, Attention
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Murphy, Eric R.; Norr, Megan; Strang, John F.; Kenworthy, Lauren; Gaillard, William D.; Vaidya, Chandan J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
We examined spontaneous attention orienting to visual salience in stimuli without social significance using a modified Dot-Probe task during functional magnetic resonance imaging in high-functioning preadolescent children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and age- and IQ-matched control children. While the magnitude of attentional bias (faster…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Visual Perception
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Grainger, Catherine; Williams, David M.; Lind, Sophie E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
This study explored whether adults and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate difficulties making metacognitive judgments, specifically judgments of learning. Across two experiments, the study examined whether individuals with ASD could accurately judge whether they had learnt a piece of information (in this case word pairs).…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Accuracy, Adolescents
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Chevallier, Coralie; Huguet, Pascal; Happé, Francesca; George, Nathalie; Conty, Laurence – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
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…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Cues, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Reed, Sarah R.; Stahmer, Aubyn C.; Suhrheinrich, Jessica; Schreibman, Laura – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
Stimulus overselectivity is widely accepted as a stimulus control abnormality in autism spectrum disorders and subsets of other populations. Previous research has demonstrated a link between both chronological and mental age and overselectivity in typical development. However, the age at which children are developmentally ready to respond to…
Descriptors: Autism, Preschool Children, Cues, Mental Age
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Reed, Phil; Broomfield, Laura; McHugh, Louise; McCausland, Aisling; Leader, Geraldine – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2009
Two experiments examined whether over-selectivity is the product of a post-acquisition performance deficit, rather than an attention problem. In both experiments, children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder were presented with a trial-and-error discrimination task using two, two-element stimuli and over-selected in both studies. After behavioral…
Descriptors: Cues, Intervention, Autism, Attention
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Goldberg, Melissa C.; Mostow, Allison J.; Vecera, Shaun P.; Larson, Jennifer C. Gidley; Mostofsky, Stewart H.; Mahone, E. Mark; Denckla, Martha B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
We examined the ability to use static line drawings of eye gaze cues to orient visual-spatial attention in children with high functioning autism (HFA) compared to typically developing children (TD). The task was organized such that on "valid trials," gaze cues were directed toward the same spatial location as the appearance of an upcoming target,…
Descriptors: Cues, Reaction Time, Autism, Human Body
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Scheeren, Anke M.; Stauder, Johannes E. A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
The finding that relatives of individuals with autism show mild autistic traits is referred to as the broader autism phenotype (BAP). In the current study, 25 parents with a child with high-functioning autism and 25 parents with typically developed children were compared on: (1) the Block Design Test, (2) the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), and (3)…
Descriptors: Cues, Reaction Time, Autism, Fathers
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Hala, Suzanne; Pexman, Penny M.; Glenwright, Melanie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Two explanations for deficits underlying autism were tested: weak central coherence (WCC) and executive dysfunction. Consistent with WCC, Happe ("British Journal of Developmental Psychology" 15 (1997) 1) found that children with autism failed to use sentence context in pronouncing homographs. In an alternate approach, we investigated whether…
Descriptors: Semantics, Developmental Psychology, Autism, Cognitive Development
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Iarocci, Grace; Burack, Jacob A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2004
The focus of the present study was to examine covert orienting responses to peripheral flash cues among children with autism in a situation where attentional processes were taxed by the presence of distractors in the visual field. Fourteen children with autism (MA = 6-7 years) were compared to their MA-matched peers without autism on a forced…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Cues, Children, Autism