The influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.

The current study examined how emotional faces impact on attentional control at both involuntary and voluntary levels in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A non-face single target was either presented in isolation or synchronously with emotional face distractors namely angry,...

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Autores principales:	Li Zhang, Guoli Yan, Valerie Benson
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:88844dd45a8e41818f238cd152c6f70d2021-11-25T06:19:21ZThe influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0250998https://doaj.org/article/88844dd45a8e41818f238cd152c6f70d2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250998https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The current study examined how emotional faces impact on attentional control at both involuntary and voluntary levels in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A non-face single target was either presented in isolation or synchronously with emotional face distractors namely angry, happy and neutral faces. ASD and typically developing children made more erroneous saccades towards emotional distractors relative to neutral distractors in parafoveal and peripheral conditions. Remote distractor effects were observed on saccade latency in both groups regardless of distractor type, whereby time taken to initiate an eye movement to the target was longest in central distractor conditions, followed by parafoveal and peripheral distractor conditions. The remote distractor effect was greater for angry faces compared to happy faces in the ASD group. Proportions of failed disengagement trials from central distractors, for the first saccade, were higher in the angry distractor condition compared with the other two distractor conditions in ASD, and this effect was absent for the typical group. Eye movement results suggest difficulties in disengaging from fixated angry faces in ASD. Atypical disengagement from angry faces at the voluntary level could have consequences for the development of higher-level socio-communicative skills in ASD.Li ZhangGuoli YanValerie BensonPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0250998 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Li Zhang Guoli Yan Valerie Benson The influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.
description	The current study examined how emotional faces impact on attentional control at both involuntary and voluntary levels in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A non-face single target was either presented in isolation or synchronously with emotional face distractors namely angry, happy and neutral faces. ASD and typically developing children made more erroneous saccades towards emotional distractors relative to neutral distractors in parafoveal and peripheral conditions. Remote distractor effects were observed on saccade latency in both groups regardless of distractor type, whereby time taken to initiate an eye movement to the target was longest in central distractor conditions, followed by parafoveal and peripheral distractor conditions. The remote distractor effect was greater for angry faces compared to happy faces in the ASD group. Proportions of failed disengagement trials from central distractors, for the first saccade, were higher in the angry distractor condition compared with the other two distractor conditions in ASD, and this effect was absent for the typical group. Eye movement results suggest difficulties in disengaging from fixated angry faces in ASD. Atypical disengagement from angry faces at the voluntary level could have consequences for the development of higher-level socio-communicative skills in ASD.
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title	The influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.
title_short	The influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.
title_full	The influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.
title_fullStr	The influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.
title_full_unstemmed	The influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.
title_sort	influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/88844dd45a8e41818f238cd152c6f70d
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The influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder.

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