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  • Social Cognition

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  • Difficulties interpreting facial cues are a core feature of autism, impacting social communication.
  • Facial stimuli often fail to capture and retain the attention of individuals with autism, particularly when processed for meaning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether faces fail to capture attention in individuals with autism, even when irrelevant to task completion.
  • To compare the distracting effect of irrelevant faces on visual search performance between individuals with autism and neurotypical individuals.

Main Methods:

  • A visual search task was employed with a butterfly as the target and a face as an irrelevant distractor.
  • Performance was measured by reaction time and accuracy in identifying the target.
  • Participants included individuals with autism (n=28, mean age 10 years 4 months) and neurotypical controls with comparable non-verbal abilities.

Main Results:

  • Neurotypical individuals were significantly slowed by the irrelevant face distractor.
  • Individuals with autism were not significantly distracted by the face distractor, indicating a different attentional capture mechanism.
  • A significant correlation was found between the level of functioning on the autism spectrum and the degree of face capture or distraction.

Conclusions:

  • Faces do not capture attention in the typical manner for individuals with autism, even when not task-relevant.
  • This finding highlights differences in visual attention and face processing in autism spectrum disorder.
  • The degree of face distraction is associated with the level of functioning within the autism spectrum.