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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2018

Brief Report: When Large Becomes Slow: Zooming-Out Visual Attention Is Associated to Orienting Deficits in Autism.

Luca Ronconi, Maria Devita, Massimo Molteni, Simone Gori, Andrea Facoetti

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 authors.

Luca RonconiDevelopmental and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. luca.ronconi@unitn.it.
Maria DevitaDepartment of Human and Social Science, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.
Massimo MolteniChild Psychopathology Unit, Scientific Institute IRCCS "E. Medea", Bosisio Parini, Italy.
Simone GoriChild Psychopathology Unit, Scientific Institute IRCCS "E. Medea", Bosisio Parini, Italy.
Andrea FacoettiDevelopmental and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies independently demonstrated impairments in rapid orienting/disengagement and zooming-out of spatial attention in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These attentional mechanisms, however, are not completely independent. Aiming at a more complete picture of spatial attention deficits in ASD, we examined the relationship between orienting and zooming in participants with ASD and typically developing peers. We modified a classical spatial cuing task, presenting two small or large cues in the two visual hemifields and subsequently cueing attention to one of them. Our results demonstrate a sluggish orienting mechanism in ASD only when a large attentional focus is deployed. Moreover, only the sluggish orienting mechanism in the large cues condition predicts the severity in the social-interaction symptomatology in individuals with ASD.

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AttentionOrientation, SpatialVisual PerceptionAdolescentAutism Spectrum DisorderCuesFemaleHumansMaleAttentionAutism spectrum disordersPerceptionVisionZoom-lens

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