Elsabbagh, M and Holmboe, K and Gliga, T and Mercure, E and Hudry, K and Charman, T and Baron-Cohen, S and Bolton, P and Johnson, MH (2011) Social and attention factors during infancy and the later emergence of autism characteristics. Progress in Brain Research, 189. pp. 195-207. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-53884-0.00025-7
Elsabbagh, M and Holmboe, K and Gliga, T and Mercure, E and Hudry, K and Charman, T and Baron-Cohen, S and Bolton, P and Johnson, MH (2011) Social and attention factors during infancy and the later emergence of autism characteristics. Progress in Brain Research, 189. pp. 195-207. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-53884-0.00025-7
Elsabbagh, M and Holmboe, K and Gliga, T and Mercure, E and Hudry, K and Charman, T and Baron-Cohen, S and Bolton, P and Johnson, MH (2011) Social and attention factors during infancy and the later emergence of autism characteristics. Progress in Brain Research, 189. pp. 195-207. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-53884-0.00025-7
Abstract
Characteristic features of autism include atypical social perception and social?communication skills, and atypical visual attention, alongside rigid and repetitive thinking and behavior. Debate has focused on whether the later emergence of atypical social skills is a consequence of attention problems early in life, or, conversely, whether early social deficits have knock-on consequences for the later development of attention skills. We investigated this question based on evidence from infants at familial risk for a later diagnosis of autism by virtue of being younger siblings of children with a diagnosis. Around 9 months, at-risk siblings differed as a group from controls, both in measures of social perception and inhibitory control. We present preliminary data from an ongoing longitudinal research program, suggesting clear associations between some of these infant measures and autism-related characteristics at 3 years. We discuss the findings in terms of the emergent nature of autism as a result of complex developmental interactions among brain networks.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | autism; development; visual attention; face processing |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2013 14:36 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 18:31 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/5703 |