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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Absence of Predispositional Attentional Sensitivity to Angry Faces in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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| Published in |
Scientific Reports, December 2014
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| DOI | 10.1038/srep07525 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tomoko Isomura, Hiroyasu Ito, Shino Ogawa, Nobuo Masataka |
| Abstract |
A rapid allocation of attention towards threatening stimuli in the environment is crucial for survival. Angry facial expressions act as threatening stimuli, and capture humans' attention more rapidly than emotionally positive facial expressions - a phenomenon known as the Anger Superiority Effect (ASE). Despite atypical emotional processing, adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have been reported to show ASE similar to typically developed (TD) individuals. One important question is whether the basic process for ASE is intact in individuals with ASD or whether instead they acquire an alternative process that enables ASE. To address this question, we tested the prevalence of ASE in young children with and without ASD using a face-in-the-crowd task. ASE was clearly observed in TD children, whereas ASD children did not show the effect. In contrast to previous reports of ASE in adults or relatively older children with ASD, our results suggest that in ASD basic predispositional mechanisms to allocate attention quickly towards angry faces are not preserved. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 26 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 9 | 35% |
| Unknown | 17 | 65% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 26 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 59 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 58 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 15% |
| Researcher | 8 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 20% |
| Unknown | 10 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 27 | 46% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Unknown | 13 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 December 2014.
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#2,143,301
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#19,446
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#28,407
of 360,702 outputs
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#115
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