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Delayed disengagement of attention from snakes in children with autism

In the visual search task, it is well known that detection of a tilted straight line as the target among vertical lines that act as distractors is easier than vice versa, and that detection of a snake image as the target among flower images is easier than vice versa. In this study, the degree of suc...

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Autores principales: Isomura, Tomoko, Ogawa, Shino, Shibasaki, Masahiro, Masataka, Nobuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4347301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25784895
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00241
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author Isomura, Tomoko
Ogawa, Shino
Shibasaki, Masahiro
Masataka, Nobuo
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description In the visual search task, it is well known that detection of a tilted straight line as the target among vertical lines that act as distractors is easier than vice versa, and that detection of a snake image as the target among flower images is easier than vice versa. In this study, the degree of such search asymmetry was compared between 18 children with autism and 14 typically developing (TD) children. The results revealed that compared to TD children, children with autism were disproportionally slow when asked to detect the flower among the snake images, suggesting the possibility that they experienced difficulty of disengaging their attention from the snake images. This delayed disengagement would serve itself as an enhanced attentional bias toward snakes in children with autism that is similar to characteristics of visual search performance in anxiety patients.
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spelling pubmed-43473012015-03-17 Delayed disengagement of attention from snakes in children with autism Isomura, Tomoko Ogawa, Shino Shibasaki, Masahiro Masataka, Nobuo Front Psychol Psychology In the visual search task, it is well known that detection of a tilted straight line as the target among vertical lines that act as distractors is easier than vice versa, and that detection of a snake image as the target among flower images is easier than vice versa. In this study, the degree of such search asymmetry was compared between 18 children with autism and 14 typically developing (TD) children. The results revealed that compared to TD children, children with autism were disproportionally slow when asked to detect the flower among the snake images, suggesting the possibility that they experienced difficulty of disengaging their attention from the snake images. This delayed disengagement would serve itself as an enhanced attentional bias toward snakes in children with autism that is similar to characteristics of visual search performance in anxiety patients. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4347301/ /pubmed/25784895 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00241 Text en Copyright © 2015 Isomura, Ogawa, Shibasaki and Masataka. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_full Delayed disengagement of attention from snakes in children with autism
title_fullStr Delayed disengagement of attention from snakes in children with autism
title_full_unstemmed Delayed disengagement of attention from snakes in children with autism
title_short Delayed disengagement of attention from snakes in children with autism
title_sort delayed disengagement of attention from snakes in children with autism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4347301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25784895
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00241
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