Attentional Differences in a Driving Hazard Perception Task in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders

The current study explored attentional processing of social and non-social stimuli in ASD within the context of a driving hazard perception task. Participants watched videos of road scenes and detected hazards while their eye movements were recorded. Although individuals with ASD demonstrated relati...

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Autores principales: Sheppard, Elizabeth, van Loon, Editha, Underwood, Geoffrey, Ropar, Danielle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5309311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27866348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2965-4
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description The current study explored attentional processing of social and non-social stimuli in ASD within the context of a driving hazard perception task. Participants watched videos of road scenes and detected hazards while their eye movements were recorded. Although individuals with ASD demonstrated relatively good detection of driving hazards, they were slower to orient to hazards. Greater attentional capture in the time preceding the hazards’ onset was associated with lower verbal IQ. The findings suggest that individuals with ASD may distribute and direct their attention differently when identifying driving hazards.
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spelling pubmed-53093112017-02-28 Attentional Differences in a Driving Hazard Perception Task in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders Sheppard, Elizabeth van Loon, Editha Underwood, Geoffrey Ropar, Danielle J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper The current study explored attentional processing of social and non-social stimuli in ASD within the context of a driving hazard perception task. Participants watched videos of road scenes and detected hazards while their eye movements were recorded. Although individuals with ASD demonstrated relatively good detection of driving hazards, they were slower to orient to hazards. Greater attentional capture in the time preceding the hazards’ onset was associated with lower verbal IQ. The findings suggest that individuals with ASD may distribute and direct their attention differently when identifying driving hazards. Springer US 2016-11-19 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5309311/ /pubmed/27866348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2965-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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