自闭症
心理学
注意偏差
眼动
认知心理学
发展心理学
任务(项目管理)
自闭症谱系障碍
认知
神经科学
光学
物理
经济
管理
作者
M. Lizarán,Rosa Sahuquillo-Leal,Pablo Navalón,Alba Moreno-Giménez,Belén Almansa,Máximo Vento,Ana García‐Blanco
标识
DOI:10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.605
摘要
Introduction The difficulties in social interaction present in individuals with autism spectrum conditions may are related with the abnormal attentional processing of emotional information. Specifically, it has been hypothesized that the hypersensibility to threat shown by individuals with autism may explain an avoidance behaviour. However, this hypothesis is not supported by research and the underlying psychological mechanisms of social interaction in autism still unclear. Objectives The aim of the present study was to examine attentional processing biases by administering a computer-based attentional task in a sample of 27 children with autism spectrum conditions and 25 typically developed participants (age 11-15 years). Methods The initial orienting of attention, the attention al engagement, and the attentional maintenance to different emotional scenes in competition (i.e. happy, neutral, threatening and sad) were measured by recording the eye movements during a 20 seconds free-viewing task. Results The main findings were: i) children with autism spectrum conditions showed an initial orientating bias towards threatening stimuli; and ii) while typically developed children revealed an attentional engagement and attentional maintenance bias towards threatening stimuli, children with autism spectrum conditions did not. Conclusions The findings of the present study are consistent with the affective information processing theories and shed light on the underlying mechanisms of social disturbances in autism spectrum conditions.
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