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

ABSTRACT: 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 wa

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8096071 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature