Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2019-04, Vol.49 (4), p.1484-1492
2019
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- Titel
- Attentional Patterns to Emotional Faces Versus Scenes in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Ist Teil von
- Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2019-04, Vol.49 (4), p.1484-1492
- Ort / Verlag
- New York: Springer US
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
- Quelle
- Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Previous research has shown attentional biases in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) when processing distressing information. This study examined these attentional patterns as a function of the type of stimulus (scenes and faces) and the stimulus valence (happy, sad, threatening, neutral) using a within-subject design. A dot-probe was applied to ASD (n = 24) and typically developing (TD) children (n = 24). Results showed no differences between the groups for happy and sad stimuli. Critically, ASD children showed an attentional bias toward threatening scenes but away from threatening faces. Thus, the type of stimuli modulated the direction of attentional biases to distressing information in ASD children. These results are discussed in the framework of current theories on cognitive and emotional processing in ASD.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0162-3257eISSN: 1573-3432DOI: 10.1007/s10803-018-3847-8Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2155166862
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- Analysis, Attention, Attention Span, Attentional bias, Autism, Autistic children, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Bias, Care and treatment, Child and School Psychology, Children, Cognitive ability, Cognitive Processes, Emotion recognition, Emotional Response, Emotions, Facial expressions, Information processing, Neurosciences, Original Paper, Pediatrics, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Psychology, Public Health, Social skills, Stimuli, Stimulus, Stress Variables