Evidence of a reduced role for circumscribed interests in the social attention patterns of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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. T...

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Autores principales: Ambarchi, Z, Boulton, K. A., Thapa, R., Thomas, E. E., DeMayo, M. M., Sasson, N. J., Hickie, I. B., Guastella, Adam J.
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10499676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35927513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05638-4
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author Ambarchi, Z
Boulton, K. A.
Thapa, R.
Thomas, E. E.
DeMayo, M. M.
Sasson, N. J.
Hickie, I. B.
Guastella, Adam J.
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Boulton, K. A.
Thapa, R.
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DeMayo, M. M.
Sasson, N. J.
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-104996762023-09-15 Evidence of a reduced role for circumscribed interests in the social attention patterns of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Ambarchi, Z Boulton, K. A. Thapa, R. Thomas, E. E. DeMayo, M. M. Sasson, N. J. Hickie, I. B. Guastella, Adam J. J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper 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. Springer US 2022-08-04 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10499676/ /pubmed/35927513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05638-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Boulton, K. A.
Thapa, R.
Thomas, E. E.
DeMayo, M. M.
Sasson, N. J.
Hickie, I. B.
Guastella, Adam J.
Evidence of a reduced role for circumscribed interests in the social attention patterns of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10499676/
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