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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Attentional Processes

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  • Atypical visuospatial attention orienting is a core feature in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and individuals with high autistic-like traits (ALTs).
  • Existing research has not fully explored theoretical explanations like disengagement difficulty, cue indifference, or orienting delays.
  • Studies often fail to differentiate between facilitation and cost effects in attention orienting tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate theoretical positions explaining atypical attention orienting in individuals with low- and high-ALT levels.
  • To differentiate facilitation and cost effects in exogenous and endogenous attention cueing tasks.
  • To examine the role of cue indifference in the attentional differences observed in high-ALT individuals.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments employed the Posner cueing paradigm with exogenous and endogenous versions.
  • Participants were grouped into Low-ALT and High-ALT levels.
  • Task difficulty was manipulated in the endogenous cueing task in Experiment 2.

Main Results:

  • High-ALT participants showed reduced cost effects in the endogenous cueing task in both experiments.
  • Experiment 2 revealed reduced facilitation effects for High-ALT participants in the endogenous task.
  • No significant group differences in attention orienting were found for the exogenous cueing task.

Conclusions:

  • Atypical attention orienting in high-ALT individuals may stem from general cue indifference, particularly towards endogenous cues.
  • These findings highlight differences in top-down attentional control between low- and high-ALT individuals.
  • Cue indifference to endogenous cues could contribute to social-cognitive variations observed in autism spectrum disorder.