Department of Psychology, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Xuefu Road 99, Suzhou, 215009, China.
BMC Psychol. 2024 May 27;12(1):295. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01777-8.
Individuals often use others' gaze and head directions to direct their attention. To investigate the influence of autistic traits on social attention, we conducted two experiments comparing groups with high and low autistic traits in single-cue (Experiment 1) and conflicting-cue (Experiment 2) scenarios. Our findings indicate that individuals responded more rapidly to the direction of a single social cue or the consensus of multiple cues. However, we did not observe significant differences in social attention between individuals with high and low autistic traits. Notably, as the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) increased, individuals with low autistic traits exhibited greater improvements in reaction speed compared to those with high autistic traits. This suggests that individuals with low autistic traits excel at leveraging temporal information to optimize their behavioral readiness over time, hinting at potential variations in cognitive flexibility related to autistic traits.
个体通常会利用他人的注视和头部方向来引导自己的注意力。为了研究自闭症特征对社交注意力的影响，我们在单线索（实验 1）和冲突线索（实验 2）场景中比较了高自闭症特征和低自闭症特征的两组被试。我们的研究结果表明，个体对单一社交线索的方向或多个线索的共识反应更快。然而，我们并没有观察到高自闭症特征和低自闭症特征个体的社交注意力有显著差异。值得注意的是，随着刺激呈现时间间隔（SOA）的增加，低自闭症特征个体的反应速度比高自闭症特征个体提高得更大。这表明低自闭症特征个体擅长利用时间信息来随着时间的推移优化其行为准备，这暗示了与自闭症特征相关的认知灵活性可能存在差异。
