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
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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 Statement
Copyright is held by the authors. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. This article was originally published as:
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
Publication Title
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume
48
Issue
9
First Page
3233
Last Page
3243
ISSN
1573-3432
PubMed ID
29696525
Recommended Citation
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
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