{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Keehn B"],"funding":["NIMH NIH HHS","NINDS NIH HHS"],"pagination":["528-536"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5695879"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["2(6)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with deficits in adaptively orienting attention to behaviorally-relevant information. Neural oscillatory activity plays a key role in brain function and provides a high-resolution temporal marker of attention dynamics. Alpha band (8-12 Hz) activity is associated with both selecting task-relevant stimuli and filtering task-irrelevant information.<h4>Methods</h4>The present study used electroencephalography (EEG) to examine alpha-band oscillatory activity associated with attentional capture in nineteen children with ASD and twenty-one age- and IQ-matched typically developing (TD) children. Participants completed a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm designed to investigate responses to behaviorally-relevant targets and con"],"journal":["Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging"],"pubmed_title":["Autism, Attention, and Alpha Oscillations: An Electrophysiological Study of Attentional Capture."],"pmcid":["PMC5695879"],"funding_grant_id":["R01 NS042639","R01 MH081023"],"pubmed_authors":["Muller RA","Westerfield M","Townsend J","Keehn B"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Autism, Attention, and Alpha Oscillations: An Electrophysiological Study of Attentional Capture.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with deficits in adaptively orienting attention to behaviorally-relevant information. Neural oscillatory activity plays a key role in brain function and provides a high-resolution temporal marker of attention dynamics. Alpha band (8-12 Hz) activity is associated with both selecting task-relevant stimuli and filtering task-irrelevant information.<h4>Methods</h4>The present study used electroencephalography (EEG) to examine alpha-band oscillatory activity associated with attentional capture in nineteen children with ASD and twenty-one age- and IQ-matched typically developing (TD) children. Participants completed a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm designed to investigate responses to behaviorally-relevant targets and con","dates":{"release":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2017 Sep","modification":"2025-04-21T19:49:37.326Z","creation":"2019-03-26T23:53:13Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5695879","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29170759"],"doi":["10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.06.006"]}}