PMID- 36358388
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20221126
IS  - 2076-3425 (Print)
IS  - 2076-3425 (Electronic)
IS  - 2076-3425 (Linking)
VI  - 12
IP  - 11
DP  - 2022 Oct 28
TI  - Attentional Engagement and Disengagement Differences for Circumscribed Interest 
      Objects in Young Chinese Children with Autism.
LID - 10.3390/brainsci12111461 [doi]
LID - 1461
AB  - The current study aimed to investigate attentional processing differences for 
      circumscribed interest (CI) and non-CI objects in young Chinese children with 
      autism spectrum condition (ASC) and typically developing (TD) controls. In 
      Experiment 1, a visual preference task explored attentional allocation to cartoon 
      CI and non-CI materials between the two groups. We found that ASC children (n = 
      22, 4.95 +/- 0.59 years) exhibited a preference for CI-related objects compared to 
      non-CI objects, and this effect was absent in the TD children (n = 22, 5.14 +/- 
      0.44 years). Experiment 2 utilized the traditional gap-overlap paradigm (GOP) to 
      investigate attentional disengagement from CI or non-CI items in both groups 
      (ASC: n = 20, 5.92 +/- 1.13 years; TD: n = 25, 5.77 +/- 0.77 years). There were no 
      group or stimulus interactions in this study. Experiment 3 adopted a modified GOP 
      (MGOP) to further explore disengagement in the two groups (ASC: n = 20, 5.54 +/- 
      0.95 years; TD: n = 24, 5.75 +/- 0.52 years), and the results suggested that 
      exogenous disengagement performance was preserved in the ASC group, but the 
      children with ASC exhibited increased endogenous attentional disengagement 
      compared to TD peers. Moreover, endogenous disengagement was influenced further 
      in the presence of CI-related objects in the ASC children. The current results 
      have implications for understanding how the nature of engagement and 
      disengagement processes can contribute to differences in the development of core 
      cognitive skills in young children with ASC.
FAU - Zhou, Li
AU  - Zhou L
AD  - Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
FAU - Zhang, Li
AU  - Zhang L
AD  - Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Big Data of Psychological and Cognitive Science, 
      Yancheng Normal University, Yancheng 224000, China.
FAU - Xu, Yuening
AU  - Xu Y
AD  - Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China.
FAU - Yang, Fuyi
AU  - Yang F
AD  - Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
FAU - Benson, Valerie
AU  - Benson V
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0351-4563
AD  - School of Psychology and Computer Science, University of Central Lancashire, 
      Preston PR1 2HE, UK.
LA  - eng
GR  - A2022009/Shanghai Municipal Education Commission/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221028
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Brain Sci
JT  - Brain sciences
JID - 101598646
PMC - PMC9688815
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - attentional engagement and disengagement
OT  - autism spectrum condition
OT  - circumscribed interest
OT  - eye movement
OT  - gap-overlap paradigm
OT  - modified gap-overlap paradigm
OT  - saccade
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/11/12 06:00
MHDA- 2022/11/12 06:01
PMCR- 2022/10/28
CRDT- 2022/11/11 01:04
PHST- 2022/09/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/10/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/10/25 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/11/11 01:04 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/11/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/11/12 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/10/28 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - brainsci12111461 [pii]
AID - brainsci-12-01461 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/brainsci12111461 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Brain Sci. 2022 Oct 28;12(11):1461. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12111461.