Publication Date

9-2018

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology

Keywords

Autism spectrum condition (ASC), Attentional cueing, Social orienting

Abstract

Human actions induce attentional orienting toward the target of the action. We examined the influence of action cueing in social (man throwing toward a human) and non-social (man throwing toward a tree) contexts in observers with and without autism spectrum condition (ASC). Results suggested that a social interaction enhanced the cueing effect for neurotypical participants. Participants with ASC did not benefit from non-predictive cues and were slower in social contexts, although they benefitted from reliably predictive cues. Social orienting appears to be automatic in the context of an implied social interaction for neurotypical observers, but not those with ASC. Neurotypical participants’ behavior may be driven by automatic processing, while participants with ASC use an alternative, effortful strategy.

Copyright Date

4-25-2018

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Publication Statement

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Morrisey, M. N., Reed, C. L., McIntosh, D. N., & Rutherford, M. D. (2018). Brief report: Attentional cueing to images of social interactions is automatic for neurotypical individuals but not those with ASC. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(9), 3233-3243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3592-z

Rights Holder

Marcus Neil Morrisey, Catherine L. Reed, Daniel N. McIntosh, and M. D. Rutherford

Provenance

Received from CHORUS

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

11 pgs

File Size

1.1 MB

Publication Title

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volume

48

Issue

9

First Page

3233

Last Page

3243

ISSN

1573-3432

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