Brief Report: Cognitive Control of Social and Nonsocial Visual Attention in Autism

Prosaccade and antisaccade errors in the context of social and nonsocial stimuli were investigated in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 19) a matched control sample (n = 19), and a small sample of youth with obsessive compulsive disorder (n = 9). Groups did not differ in error rates in t...

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Published in:Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2016-08, Vol.46 (8), p.2797-2805
Main Authors: DiCriscio, Antoinette Sabatino, Miller, Stephanie J., Hanna, Eleanor K., Kovac, Megan, Turner-Brown, Lauren, Sasson, Noah J., Sapyta, Jeffrey, Troiani, Vanessa, Dichter, Gabriel S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Anxiety Disorders
Attention
Attention (Psychology)
Attention - physiology
Attention Control
Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autistic children
Autistic Disorder - diagnosis
Autistic Disorder - psychology
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Brain research
Brief Report
Child
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Child and School Psychology
Cognition
Cognition - physiology
Cognitive ability
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Processes
Comparative Analysis
Control (Psychology)
Control Groups
Error Patterns
Experimental Groups
Eye Movements
Female
Health aspects
Humans
Inhibition
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Matched Groups
Medicine
Neurosciences
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Pediatrics
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Photic Stimulation - methods
Psychological aspects
Psychology
Public Health
Saccades - physiology
Saccadic eye movements
Severity
Stimulus
Studies
Visual attention
Visual Measures
Visual Perception
Visual Perception - physiology
Visual Stimuli
Visual task performance
Youth
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Summary:Prosaccade and antisaccade errors in the context of social and nonsocial stimuli were investigated in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 19) a matched control sample (n = 19), and a small sample of youth with obsessive compulsive disorder (n = 9). Groups did not differ in error rates in the prosaccade condition for any stimulus category. In the antisaccade condition, the ASD group demonstrated more errors than the control group for nonsocial stimuli related to circumscribed interests, but not for other nonsocial stimuli or for social stimuli. Additionally, antisaccade error rates were predictive of core ASD symptom severity. Results indicate that the cognitive control of visual attention in ASD is impaired specifically in the context of nonsocial stimuli related to circumscribed interests.
ISSN:0162-3257
1573-3432
DOI:10.1007/s10803-016-2804-7