Publication year: 2010 Source: Developmental Review, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 52-73 Catherine Ames, Sue Fletcher-Watson Atypical attention, while not a diagnostic feature, is common in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The study of these atypicalities has recently gained in both quantity and quality, due in part to an increased focus on attentional atypicalities as one of the earliest signs of ASD in infancy. A range of attentional processes and components have been investigated, and the methods used are varied, from Posner-type paradigms, to the more recent use of eye-movement recording and change-detection techniques
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A review of methods in the study of attention in autism