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Title: | Attentional Cueing and Executive Deficits Revealed by a Virtual Supermarket Task Coupled With Eye-Tracking in Autism Spectrum Disorder | Authors: | Mouga, Susana Duarte, Isabel Catarina Café, Cátia Sousa, Daniela Duque, Frederico Oliveira, Guiomar Castelo-Branco, Miguel |
Keywords: | autism spectrum disorder; attentional cueing; executive functioning; social cognition; eye-tracking; ecological task | Issue Date: | 2021 | Publisher: | Frontiers Media S.A. | Project: | PAC MEDPERSYST POCI-01-0145- FEDER-016428 CONNECT-BCI POCI-01-0145-FEDER- 30852 FCT/UID/4950/2020 DSAIPA/DS/0041/2020 PTDC/PSI-GER/1326/2020 SFRH/BD/102779/2014 CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER- 000016 Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Life Sciences |
Serial title, monograph or event: | Frontiers in Psychology | Volume: | 12 | Abstract: | Executive functioning (EF) impairments in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) impact on complex functions, such as social cognition. We assessed this link between EF, attentional cueing, and social cognition with a novel ecological task, "EcoSupermarketX." Our task had three blocks of increasing executive load and incorporated social and non-social cues, with different degrees of saliency. Performance of ASD and typical neurodevelopment was compared. The ASD showed a significant performance dependence on the presence of contextual cues. Difficulties increased as a function of cognitive load. Between-group differences were found both for social and non-social salient cues. Eye-tracking measures showed significantly larger fixation time of more salient social cues in ASD. In sum, EcoSupermarketX is sensitive to detect EF and attentional cueing deficits in ASD. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/104580 | ISSN: | 1664-1078 | DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.671507 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CIBIT - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais I&D ICNAS - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais I&D CNC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais FMUC Medicina - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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