title: Social-Emotional Inhibition of Return in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Versus Typical Development.
abstract: In typical development there is a bias to orient visual attention to social information. Children with ASD do not reliably demonstrate this bias, and the role of attention orienting has not been well studied. We examined attention orienting via the inhibition of return (IOR) mechanism in a spatial cueing task using social-emotional cues; we studied 8- to 17-year-old children with ASD (n = 41) and typically developing controls (TDC) (n = 25). The ASD group exhibited a significantly stronger IOR effect than the TDC group, and the IOR effect correlated positively with social impairments but was unrelated to co-occurring ADHD or anxiety symptoms. The results provide evidence of an early altered attention mechanism that is associated with to core social deficits in ASD.
authors.affiliation: Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market St, Ste 860, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.|Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Ligia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Antezana
authors.affiliation: Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market St, Ste 860, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.|Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Maya G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Mosner
authors.affiliation: Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market St, Ste 860, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.|Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.|Geisinger-Bucknell Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Lewisburg, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Troiani
authors.affiliation: Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market St, Ste 860, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. Yerysb@email.chop.edu.|Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Yerysb@email.chop.edu.
authors.forename: Benjamin E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Yerys
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D003463:Cues; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D012919:Social Behavior
keywords: Autism spectrum disorder; Children; Comorbidities; Inhibition of return; Orienting; Visual attention