著者

Katagiri Masatoshi Kasai Tetsuko Kamio Yoko Murohashi Harumitsu

出版者

Springer

雑誌

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (ISSN:01623257)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.43, no.2, pp.395-403, 2013-02-13

被引用文献数

23

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The purpose of the present study was to determine whether individuals with Asperger’s disorder exhibit difficulty in switching attention from a local level to a global level. Eleven participants with Asperger’s disorder and 11 age- and gendermatched healthy controls performed a level-repetition switching task using Navontype hierarchical stimuli. In both groups, level-repetition was beneficial at both levels. Furthermore, individuals with Asperger’s disorder exhibited difficulty in switching attention from a local level to a global level compared to control individuals. These findings suggested that there is a problem with the inhibitory mechanism that influences the output of enhanced local visual processing in Asperger’s disorder.