title: Brief Report: Cognitive Control of Social and Nonsocial Visual Attention in Autism.
abstract: Prosaccade and antisaccade errors in the context of social and nonsocial stimuli were investigated in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 19) a matched control sample (n = 19), and a small sample of youth with obsessive compulsive disorder (n = 9). Groups did not differ in error rates in the prosaccade condition for any stimulus category. In the antisaccade condition, the ASD group demonstrated more errors than the control group for nonsocial stimuli related to circumscribed interests, but not for other nonsocial stimuli or for social stimuli. Additionally, antisaccade error rates were predictive of core ASD symptom severity. Results indicate that the cognitive control of visual attention in ASD is impaired specifically in the context of nonsocial stimuli related to circumscribed interests.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. asdicriscio@geisinger.edu.|Geisinger Health System, Geisinger Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute (ADMI), Lewisburg, PA, 17837, USA. asdicriscio@geisinger.edu.
authors.forename: Antoinette Sabatino
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: DiCriscio
authors.affiliation: Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Stephanie J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Eleanor K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Hanna
authors.affiliation: School Psychology Program, School of Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Megan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kovac
authors.affiliation: Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Turner-Brown
authors.affiliation: School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 75080-3021, USA.
authors.forename: Noah J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Sasson
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sapyta
authors.affiliation: Geisinger Health System, Geisinger Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute (ADMI), Lewisburg, PA, 17837, USA.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Troiani
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.|Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.|Department of Psychiatry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Gabriel S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Dichter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Autism spectrum disorder; Cognitive control; Eyetracking; Visual attention