ERIC Number: EJ855321
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Faces Do Not Capture Special Attention in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Change Blindness Study
Kikuchi, Yukiko; Senju, Atsushi; Tojo, Yoshikuni; Osanai, Hiroo; Hasegawa, Toshikazu
Child Development, v80 n5 p1421-1433 Sep-Oct 2009
Two experiments investigated attention of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to faces and objects. In both experiments, children (7- to 15-year-olds) detected the difference between 2 visual scenes. Results in Experiment 1 revealed that typically developing children (n = 16) detected the change in faces faster than in objects, whereas children with ASD (n = 16) were equally fast in detecting changes in faces and objects. These results were replicated in Experiment 2 (n = 16 in children with ASD and 22 in typically developing children), which does not require face recognition skill. Results suggest that children with ASD lack an attentional bias toward others' faces, which could contribute to their atypical social orienting.
Descriptors: Autism, Human Body, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Attention, Nonverbal Communication, Recognition (Psychology), Children, Interpersonal Competence
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