| Title |
Brief Report: Circumscribed Attention in Young Children with Autism
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, May 2010
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10803-010-1038-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Noah J. Sasson, Jed T. Elison, Lauren M. Turner-Brown, Gabriel S. Dichter, James W. Bodfish |
| Abstract |
School-aged children and adolescents with autism demonstrate circumscribed attentional patterns to nonsocial aspects of complex visual arrays (Sasson et al. 2008). The current study downward extended these findings to a sample of 2-5 year-olds with autism and 2-5 year-old typically developing children. Eye-tracking was used to quantify discrete aspects of visual attention to picture arrays containing combinations of social pictures, pictures of objects frequently involved in circumscribed interests in persons with autism (e.g., trains), and pictures of more commonplace objects (e.g., clothing). The children with autism exhibited greater exploration and perseverative attention on objects related to circumscribed interests than did typically developing children. Results suggest that circumscribed attention may be an early emerging characteristic of autism. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 193 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 40 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 35 | 18% |
| Researcher | 28 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 8% |
| Other | 35 | 18% |
| Unknown | 29 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 84 | 43% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 10 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 24 | 12% |
| Unknown | 45 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 October 2015.
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#6,302
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#7
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